[:en]Last week I went to Jakarta with the harm reduction program director for Open Society Institute and met with a half dozen grassroots groups of injection drug users (IDU). In Indonesia, where AIDS is ravaging the country due to the rapidly-escalating use of drugs, young people have responded by starting small nonprofit groups to reach out to drug users on the street. They hand out clean needles, give advice on AIDS prevention, help people get medical care when they need it, and advocate with the local police. And they’re doing some innovative things on the human rights front, too.
Advocacy note: Hope and change?
[:en]What does an Obama administration mean for advocates of human rights in China? As the President and Secretary of State unpack their boxes in their new offices, this has become a favorite subject of debate at China human rights gatherings.
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
[:]
