On April 28, Asia Catalyst hosted a panel at NYU School of Law on pediatric AIDS in China featuring Meg Davis, Lauren Burke, Joanne Csete and Ken Legins, and moderated by Jerome A. Cohen. The panel also announced the launching of our report I Will Fight to My Last Breath: Barriers to AIDS Treatment for Children in China.
[REPORT] From Johannesburg to Beijing
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We’re still quite excited about the success of Mark Heywood’s trip to China last month.
Mark is the director of the South African AIDS Law Project, and a co-founder of Treatment Action Coalition — two groundbreaking groups working on AIDS and human rights. He’s also chair of the U.N. Reference Group on AIDS and Human Rights. But not quite your typical UNocrat. Asked to deliver a keynote address to the U.N. High-Level Meeting on AIDS last June, Mark agreed, but did it wearing a hipper-than-your-mama black “HIV positive” t-shirt and shades. And he roundly denounced the Chinese government for imprisoning AIDS activist Hu Jia (bucking U.N. protocol that prohibits countries being criticized by name – which raises the question – exactly what are we all doing here again?). Cheers, of course, from the Chinese civil society delegation at the back of the room.
大家好！ and so we begin…
[:en]Welcome to the blog for Asia Catalyst. This is a space we’ll be using to share news and information that relates to our work. Most of what you see here will be about AIDS and human rights in China -but from time to time we’ll be posting on other interesting developments in the human rights movement in Asia.
Posts here are written by Sara (Meg) Davis, Asia Catalyst’s founder/director, and by our collective of consultants, volunteers, graduate interns, and passing friends. As of January 2009, our intern/volunteer group includes:
Ken Oh, Asia Report coordinator
Carol Wang, China program coordinator
Lauren A. Burke
Josh Greenstein
Gisa Hartmann
Anton Muhajir
Oliver Dinh
Garrett Traub[:zh]
Welcome to the blog for Asia Catalyst.
This is a space we’ll be using to share news and information that relates to
our work. Most of what you see here will be about AIDS and human rights in China -but from time to time we’ll be posting on
other interesting developments in the human rights movement in Asia.
Posts here are written by Sara (Meg) Davis, Asia Catalyst’s
founder/director, and by our collective of consultants, volunteers, graduate
interns, and passing friends. As of January 2009, our intern/volunteer group
includes:
Ken Oh, Asia Report
coordinator
Carol Wang, China
program coordinator
Lauren A. Burke
Josh Greenstein
Gisa Hartmann
Anton Muhajir
Oliver Dinh
Garrett Traub
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