HIHR was able to meet with key staff to advance beyond the initial ideas to begin to construct coordinated activities together and to identify next steps in solidarity.

While the world dawdles, greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere, and the likelihood that the world will meet even the agreed upon target of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius is diminishing.

And when I realized that Tim Russert, former moderator of Meet the Press, was talking about my writing, while I was living in a van in a Wal Mart parking lot, I started laughing.

Calls upon the international community, inter alia, through helping to meet the financial needs of the Global Fund to Fight HIV AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and through country led initiatives with adequate international support, to create conditions for insecticide treated mosquito nets, insecticides for indoor residual spraying for malaria control and effective antimalarial combination treatments to be fully accessible, including free distribution of such nets where appropriate .