Advocacy
Asia Catalyst understands the importance of implementing policy change at the highest levels. To that end we engage in strategic and targeted independent and collaborative evidence-based advocacy, aimed at ending discrimination and increasing rights protections for all. Our research reports draw on individual testimony to document human rights issues that affect marginalized groups in Asia, founded on comprehensive context analysis. We use international experience and legal analysis to make policy and law reform recommendations. We also work with the United Nations, international networks of NGOs, government stakeholders, and international donors to promote policies that are evidence-based and founded in international human rights law and practice.
Recent research and advocacy has included:
- The Condom Quandary: A Survey of the Impact of Law Enforcement Practices on Effective HIV Prevention among Male, Female, and Transgender Sex Workers in China, July 2016
- First Do No Harm: Discrimination in Health Care Settings against People Living with HIV in Cambodia, China, Myanmar, and Viet Nam, March 2016
- “My Life Is Too Dark to See the Light”: A Survey of the Living Conditions of Transgender Female Sex Workers in Beijing and Shanghai, January 2015
- Custody & Education (C&E): Arbitrary Detention for Female Sex Workers in China, December 2013
- China’s Blood Disaster: The Way Forward, 2012
- Employment Discrimination Against People Living with HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Users, 2012
- HIV Real-Name Testing: Is China Ready?, 2012
- Managing Strengths and Weakness: A Survey of Chinese Health Rights Groups, 2012
- Medical Discrimination Against People Living with HIV/AIDS, November 2010
- I Will Fight to My Last Breath: Barriers to AIDS Treatment for Children in China, 2009 Restrictions on AIDS NGOs in Asia, 2009
- Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Restrictions in Advance of the Beijing Olympics, 2008
- AIDS Blood Scandals: What China Can Learn from the World’s Mistakes, 2007