[COMMENTARY] Five Years of Inciting Nonprofit Stability

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By Sara L.M. Davis

In November 2006, Chinese AIDS activist Li Dan sent me an email in New York. I had met this young Chinese PhD student turned AIDS activist once or twice, most recently at a dinner honoring him as a recipient of the Reebok Human Rights Award.

“We’re thinking of starting an AIDS law center in Beijing,” he wrote in his message. “Do you know anyone who might be interested?”

I did – in fact, I had just come home from having coffee with Jonathan Cohen of the Open Society Institute, who had mentioned an interest in funding an AIDS law project in China. That project launched both Li Dan’s Korekata AIDS Law Center and Asia Catalyst.

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[UPDATE] Asia Catalyst and Friends at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna

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Asia Catalyst and friends from China and Thailand are going to Vienna in July for the International AIDS Conference. Here’s where we will be, hope to see you.

 

 

GLOBAL VILLAGE

Stop by our “Crossing Borders” booth
for a packet on how to plan your own human rights research mission,
mini-trainings on human rights research, and cool gear from China &
Thailand!

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[REPORT] The Thai Protest Zone

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By Karyn Kaplan

 

Note from Asia Catalyst: On May 20-22, Asia Catalyst will join with Thai AIDS
Treatment Action Group and Korekata AIDS Law Center to hold a training for
Chinese and Thai AIDS NGOs in Bangkok. We’ve been communicating with Karyn
Kaplan of TTAG to figure out if the training could still go forward, given the
protests. Karyn wrote us an email describing the situation on May 4. Since
then, the New York Times reports that divisions
are emerging between protest leaders as the state again threatens to use
force to end the protests. Karyn gave us permission to reprint her email to us –
a picture of the scene in the protest zone.

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