Missed our panel at the Asia Society on HIV/AIDS and human rights? You can watch the video (1 hr, 20 minutes) online at the link below.
NEW YORK, December 1, 2010 – Joseph Amon, Joanne Csete, Sara L.M. Davis, Kevin Robert Frost, Daniel Wolfe explore human rights issues as they relate to AIDS in Asia. (1 hr., 20 min.)
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。
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Phoenix (苦草工作室) is a local, grassroots Chinese organization that provides
services to sex workers living with HIV/AIDS. From June through October, 2010,
Phoenix conducted a community-driven research project to document discrimination
against women living with HIV/AIDS. The result is this report.
South African AIDS NGOs have spoken out several times to protest the detention of Henan AIDS activist Tian Xi. Tian Xi is still awaiting a decision on his trial for “intentional destruction of property”.
