[NEWS] Asia Catalyst in the People’s Daily

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It’s not every day that Asia Catalyst appears in the Wall Street Journal…or the People’s Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party. It was a pleasant surprise, then, when both happened in the same week.

Here’s a link to an article about Chinese civil rights group Tianxia Gong and their campaign to end employment-related discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in China. Staff of the grassroots NGO asked friends and supporters to pose for the camera with signs reading “PLWHA can be teachers” and “End discrimination against PLWHA”. UNAIDS picked it up, and over 12,000 people around the country have had their photos taken. We are honored to be part of this important campaign.

[NEWS] Shanghai Daily Highlights Red Ribbon Home

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We’re delighted to see the fine work of Red Ribbon Home was featured in the Shanghai Daily on December 1, World AIDS Day. As the Daily write, Red Ribbon Home was founded by Zhang Lin, a woman living with HIV/AIDS, in Ruili, Yunnan. Red Ribbon Home provides frontline services to people living with HIV/AIDS, and holds social activities to provide a safe space for the community to connect with one another.

Red Ribbon Home was selected as a member of Asia Catalyst’s 2012 NGO Leadership Cohort program, which is training ten grassroots health rights groups in organizational management and advocacy skills.

[RESOURCE] Know It: The Rights Framework

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Asia Catalyst, Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group and Dongjen Center for Human Rights Education and Action announce the publication of the second in our series of human rights manuals for grassroots groups from HIV/AIDS-affected communities: Know It: The Rights Framework. 

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[COMMENTARY] Prejudice Mars China’s AIDS Record

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From the Wall Street Journal Asia

By Mark Heywood and Sara L.M. Davis

China will observe World AIDS Day on Thursday with events in which Chinese leaders publicly embrace people living
with HIV/AIDS. But on every other day of the year, hundreds of thousands of Chinese living with HIV/AIDS are treated as second-class citizens.

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[URGENT APPEAL] Thai People Living with HIV/AIDS Devastated by Floods

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Asia Catalyst is urging supporters and friends to give what you can to the Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) in their urgent appeal for a disaster response.

According to TNP+, the floods in 26 provinces of Thailand which began in October 2011 have affected about 2 million people.  In some towns and villages the water is as high as three meters above street level.

The members of the Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) who live in those provinces are affected in many ways:

– homes and household equipment have been damaged, with water levels reaching the roofs of some properties

– equipment damaged

– farm land damaged

– cars and motorcycles under water

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