Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.