Auto majors announce health benefits for same-sex partners
In what can be termed as a corporate social responsibility, three leading automobile manufacturers in the US the Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler Corp. have come up with a plan to offer full health support to the same sex partners of their employees.

Spermicide fails to protect against HIV
Since 1996, scientists have been working on finding a microbial that will prevent the spread of HIV infection amongst sex workers. Nonoxynol-9 (N-9), a gel-form spermicide was being used in these trials, which were done in five countries by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Columbia Laboratories.

Nicaraguan policy on child labour draws flak
Nicaraguan ministry of labour's recent decision to allow children aged 12 and above to work in coffee plantations is being angrily opposed by children's rights groups.


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