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AIDS - the fight is still going on!
Video ! "For this last Saturday, December 1st, World AIDS Day, an incredible group of people have shared the reason why they're in the fight against AIDS with ONE. These are their stories. Watch one. Share one. Join ONE. On World AIDS Day, Saturday 1 December, we should all pledge to speak out, sign and share the petition , share one film, and tell one friend that the world must get back on track towards the beginning of the end of AIDS: it starts with you .T his year also marks thirty years in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and One's latest report shows that global progress is way off track – at this rate, we won’t see the beginning of the end of AIDS until 2022. That’s not for the lack of thousands of activists trying, tirelessly, in the face of prejudice, discrimination, ignorance, and often a lack of political will. " The evolution of AIDS epidemic in Portugal. The first case was detected in 1983, a man, Hospital Curry Cabral, Lisbon. Source:...
Portugal got Silver in the World's Best TV & Films Awards
“Portugal – The beauty of simplicity” won Silver Medal at The 55th World Film Awards 2012 awards ceremony for the Short Film category for the promotional film. The video was a production of Turismo de Portugal. The Jury honored the World’s Best TV Programs & Films and awarded three Grand Trophies while only 2 silvers were awarded this year in the Short Film Category. This festival received entries from forty countries around the globe. All winning entries were selected by a Grand Jury made up of award-winning Television and Film professionals. The film can be downloaded here .
What Finland must know about Portugal
Video As some of my blog visitors might know my country, Portugal, is going through pretty rough times. This year's street protests were the biggest ever to take place. 400,000 people took to the streets and many strikes occur just before the downfall of Sócrates's socialist government. Then the IMF arrived in Portugal to negotiate the terms of the rescue, the bailout. The "troika" are the International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Central Bank (ECB), and European Commission (EC). Negotiations took place about the conditions that Portugal has to obey in order to receive financial aid. If you think that things are going to get better for Portuguese people you are not aware of what this bailout means. The IMF help depends on accepting austerity measures that will deepen the crisis further. I believe that living standards will fall and unemployment will get higher. So most of us are not happy about IMF presence, but Portugal had no choice because at one point ban...