Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, CCis a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1937
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
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When people are dying by the thousands every day, unnecessarily, when we've had this horrendous pandemic unfold for two decades while the world stands by and watches - you'll do anything in your power to move the process.
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Yet, when the men get infected, which so happens in the cities, and they go back to the rural areas to die, it is of course their wives -often infected and sick themselves- who look after the men until they die.
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
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I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
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It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
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It is not clear what the impact of estrangement between the U.S. and some its allies will have on the financial sphere. The last G7 meeting did not achieve a great deal.
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
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That distortion of the preventive apparatus ... is resulting in great damage and undoubtedly will cause significant numbers of infections which should never have occurred,
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We have one girl, Nadia Underwood, who just went for her fifth shoot in Japan. She's only 17 and she's already made $250,000.
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Wherever the capital inflows come from, it is clear that Iceland would not have been able to run so large a current account deficit without them and would have had to curb internal demand a while ago. The same is true, of course, of the U.S. (and of the U.K. for that matter). The key question in these instances is how reliable the capital inflows are.
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Treasury yields have fallen across the board as the market waits to see how much damage the hurricane will do.
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I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
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I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.