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Law and Health Initiative Presents Materials for International AIDS Conference in Toronto (NEW: Aug 8'06) Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More than Ever A Delegates’ Guide to Law and Human Rights at AIDS 2006 Now more than ever, human rights must occupy the center of the global struggle against HIV/AIDS. Universal access to prevention, treatment, care, and support will never be achieved unless the international community takes concrete steps to protect the human rights of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. A Guide to legal and human rights-based sessionsThe Law and Health Initiative (LAHI) of the Open Society Institute has prepared a Delegates’ Guide to highlight the many legal and human rights-based sessions, presentations, and other events at the XVI International AIDS Conference (August 14 -17, 2006) and its satellite events in Toronto, Canada. A summary version of the Guide is now available at www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/law . The full Guide will be available after August 3, 2006. A declaration on HIV and human rights In addition to the Guide, LAHI has prepared a declaration providing ten reasons why human rights should occupy the center of the global AIDS struggle. The declaration is also available at www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/law . The OSI booth: a “hub” for legal and human rights information Printed copies of the Guide, the declaration, and publications on HIV/AIDS and human rights from 18 NGOs from around the globe, will be available at the OSI booth at the conference (F-425). This booth will serve as a hub for law and human rights information and activities. Each day, from 12:45 to 13:45, conference delegates can meet human rights activists working on HIV issues. A reception for lawyers and human rights activists Please join us for “HIV/AIDS and the Law: Canada and Beyond,” a reception for Canadian and international lawyers and human rights advocates, co-sponsored by LAHI and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. The reception will be on Wednesday, August 16 from 6:30-8:30 pm in the Donald Lamont Learning Centre of the Law Society of Upper Canada, 130 Queen Street West. RSVP to osi.rsvp@gmail.com Additional information about the Guide The Delegates’ Guide to Law and Human Rights at AIDS 2006 • provides a list of organizations working on legal and human rights issues that have booths at the conference • presents summary information on the many sessions, satellite meetings, skills building workshops, and events in the Global Village and Youth Program addressing legal and human rights issues. This Guide covers many issues that are critical to a human rights approach to HIV/AIDS: • The rights of women and girls, including their right to protection from violence; equality under the law; equal access to property and inheritance; and access to education, information, and a full range of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health services; • The rights of people who use drugs, including freedom from arbitrary arrest, torture, incarceration for low-level offences, and other abuses in the criminal justice system; access to harm reduction services such as needle exchange and substitution treatment; and equal access to antiretroviral treatment for HIV; • The rights of prisoners, including humane conditions of confinement; access to HIV prevention, treatment and care services; freedom from arbitrarily prolonged incarceration; access to medical release; and equal treatment for prisoners living with HIV; • The rights of sex workers, men who have sex with men, and other marginalized groups, including freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention for violating laws against prostitution and sodomy; protection from rape and other forms of violence; and equality in access to health, employment, and other services; • The rights of children affected by AIDS, including protection from abandonment, sexual violence, property grabbing, and other abuses; equal access to primary, secondary, and tertiary education; and access to a full range of HIV services, including complete HIV prevention information and antiretroviral treatment for HIV; • The rights of youth, including complete and science-based HIV-prevention information; comprehensive adolescent sexual and reproductive rights services; and meaningful involvement in the formulation of HIV policies and programs; • The rights of AIDS activists, including freedom of _expression, association, and information; and the right to participate in the formulation of HIV policies and programs; • The right to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care, including lifting all barriers to prevention, treatment, and care programs such as censorship of HIV-prevention information, legal restrictions on harm reduction services for people who use drugs, excessive patent protection on HIV drugs, and restrictions on opioid pain medication for palliative care |
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