Asia Catalyst Update
December 2010
Here’s what we did with your help in the last quarter. Our work to help grassroots Asian AIDS groups to survive
and thrive scaled up, with new projects in China and Thailand. But we need your
help to help others. Please give: www.asiacatalyst.org/donate
Award-winning rights advocates from China and Thailand are
joining together to train grassroots HIV/AIDS groups in human rights
skills. Their first manual, Prove It: Documenting Rights Abuses was published on World AIDS Day, December 1st. English press release (pdf) Chinese press release (pdf) Read more and download the manual/下载课本。
A manual on rights documentation skills for grassroots HIV/AIDS groups. The manual comes with a supplement containing lesson plans for use in community training workshops. Click here to see the web page and
download the manual and supplement.
The XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, whose theme was “Right Here,
Rights Now,” provided a unique opportunity to bring together many people from
around the world who share an interest in and commitment to a human
rights-based response to HIV/AIDS.
As a follow-up to AIDS 2010 and as part of a larger effort to support greater
collaboration among key people working on HIV, human rights and law, UNAIDS and
the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network have partnered in order to develop an
international roster of practitioners with experience in HIV and human rights.
There was a visible presence for China during AIDS 2010, which included a delegation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the country. Chinese officials also presented on the government’s work on HIV/AIDS, which elicited critical feedback from activists. In this article from the HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review, conference attendees Sara L. M. Davis and Li Dan outline the main human rights issues in China’s response to HIV/AIDS.
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