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Hanoi Conference Aims to Link Health with Human Rights

UN official tells attendees move toward treatment rather than punishment does not have to conflict with Asian cultural attitudes, or even with China's and Vietnam's Communist ideologies ...full story at Voice of America

from Voice of America on Fri, Oct 30 2009

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