The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seems to be casting a wide net in its search for new expert reviewers of funding proposals. This might be an opportunity for AIDS activists to get a bit more input into the way funds get disbursed… Anyway, check out the call for applicants, below.
[REPORT] The Thai Protest Zone
By Karyn Kaplan
Note from Asia Catalyst: On May 20-22, Asia Catalyst will join with Thai AIDS
Treatment Action Group and Korekata AIDS Law Center to hold a training for
Chinese and Thai AIDS NGOs in Bangkok. We’ve been communicating with Karyn
Kaplan of TTAG to figure out if the training could still go forward, given the
protests. Karyn wrote us an email describing the situation on May 4. Since
then, the New York Times reports that divisions
are emerging between protest leaders as the state again threatens to use
force to end the protests. Karyn gave us permission to reprint her email to us –
a picture of the scene in the protest zone.
[NEWS] Cambodian Police Stop Documentary Screening
by Rich Garella
Cambodian workers who hoped to see Who Killed Chea Vichea? on
International Labor Day didn’t get so much as a bite of popcorn before
police intervened and tore down the screen.
[NEWS] Will Labor Rights Film be Banned in Cambodia?
By Rich Garella
Wow, that was fast.
We’ve only just completed the public TV version of our film Who Killed Chea
Vichea?, and already a group of Cambodian unions plans to show it. In
Cambodia, where it counts most. Their aim is to highlight the government’s
failure to conduct a real investigation of the 1999 murder of the Cambodian labor
leader.
[REPORT] A Look at Harm Reduction In Surabaya (East Java, Indonesia)
by Rudhy Sinyo
Recently, Indonesia’s health services have begun to scale
up the implementation of harm reduction in Surabaya. From a positive
standpoint, government support for this program is improving,
though there are down sides as well.
