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Letters to the Editor are from the print edition of the Independent. E-mail responses (no attachments), giving postal address and telephone number, to letters@independent.co.uk

Letters: Stigma and secrecy promote the spread of HIV

Published: 06 December 2005

Sir: As Bianca Jagger says (Opinion, 5 December), the new law on HIV and workplace discrimination is long overdue - and it's only the very first step in addressing the huge stigma faced by all of us living with HIV in Britain.

Letters: Phonics and reading

Published: 05 December 2005

Children need more than just phonics in the uphill task of reading

Letters: Sex trade

Published: 03 December 2005

Sir: I appreciated Joan Smith's article on the sex trade (2 December). I agree entirely that the issue of "demand" in this appalling situation of human slavery needs to be addressed as much as the "supply".

Letters: Carbon budgeting

Published: 02 December 2005

Carbon budgeting, the way to make us all conserve energy

Letters: Rainforest conservation

Published: 01 December 2005

Money deals offer a chance to halt the 'long defeat' of the forests

Letters: Save the rainforests

Published: 30 November 2005

Save the rainforests - from booming Chinese demand

Letters: Save the rainforests

Published: 29 November 2005

Developed world must seize this chance to save rainforests

Letters: street lighting

Published: 28 November 2005

In the face of planetary disaster, the street lights blaze on

Letters: Children at risk

Published: 26 November 2005

A crucial protection is being withdrawn from children at risk

Letters: Gun crime

Published: 25 November 2005

Calling for the death penalty won't prevent gun crime

Letters: Defenceless British troops

Published: 24 November 2005

Defenceless British troops sent out to face roadside bombs in Iraq

Letters: GCSE coursework

Published: 23 November 2005

GCSE coursework doesn't work any more - let's just drop it

Letters: Racism in Britain and France

Published: 22 November 2005

Why it is better to be young and black in Britain than in France

Letters: Asylum policy

Published: 21 November 2005

Destitution will be the result of this inhumane asylum policy

Letters: Trade and Africa

Published: 19 November 2005

Historic opportunity to boost trade and the fortunes of Africa

Letters: What the police should do

Published: 18 November 2005

Sir Ian, we've been telling you for years what the police should do

Letters: Climate catastrophe

Published: 17 November 2005

Heading for climate catastrophe while the oil supplies run dry

Letters: The British-born who find it hard to feel British

Published: 16 November 2005

Sir: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes "cheering news" (14 November) about increasing numbers of British-born citizens with African and Asian ancestry achieving managerial and professional careers. But she falls in with one aspect of inequality and racism that is deeply embedded in European society. These British-born citizens she is talking about are as British as all the other British-born citizens but sadly, as we know only too well from the July 7 bombings, many of them feel second-class citizens or even not British at all.