World Health Day, which falls on April 7 every year, is a chance to highlight the hurdles which stand between us and the goal of universal access to “the highest attainable standard of health.” For nearly 5 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific today, this goal can seem like a distant dream.
Asia Catalyst’s Advocacy Director Shen Tingting was featured on France 24 news this week!
The news segment is an exposé on the human rights violations of China’s C&E system. Asia Catalyst is glad to see international attention being given to the situation of Custody and Education in China. (more…)
Last week Asia Catalyst signed a petition to the World Health Organization to bring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues to the forefront of the next WHO Executive Board Meeting, happening May of 2014. You can read the letter for yourself below. Or, to see the original, click here. (more…)
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By Charmain Mohamed
China will mark this year’s International Women’s Day by continuing to arbitrarily detain thousands of women and girls in Custody and Education (C&E) centers across the country. In place since the 1980s, C&E is an administrative penalty system targeting commercial sex workers and their clients. In the name of ‘education’ and ‘rescue,’ sex workers and their clients can be detained for periods of six months to two years, without any form of judicial oversight, appeal, or redress. While in custody, women are subjected to forced unpaid labor and compulsory testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
