UNGASS 2008

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• Women Demand Action and Accountability Now

  Women ask all governments to be accountable to the Declaration of Commitment and the Political Commitment, and to place gender equality and women’s empowerment at the center of national AIDS responses by allocating resources, strengthening data collection, and developing and improving means for measuring action and mechanisms for quality meaningful participation and leadership of women and girls. To read the statement, please click here.
  

• Civil Society representatives' speeches delivered during the Civil Society Hearing
  at the High Level Meeting on June 10, 2008.
• Civil Society Declaration of the 2088 UN High Level meeting on AIDS Read more
• UN Webcast Schedule for Tuesday, 10 June 2008 is now available.
• letter from the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights was sent to Peter Piot on June 6, 2008. To read the letter entitled Human Rights and Universal Access at the High Level Meeting, please click here.

• International coalition urges governments and donors to keep their promises to women and girls. Read more...

• On 28 May Peter Piot sent a reply to the Civil Society Task Force regarding their request for more focus at the HLM on universal access. Click here to read the letter

• Below you will find a copy of the HIV Travel Ban Information Note and Waiver for UNGASS. To sign on to a letter from civil society asking countries to lift travel restrictions, click here.

• The Secretary General's Report, which will be the basis for the panel discussions that will take place at the meeting, as well as the outcome summary report, was just released. Click here to read it.

• The General Assembly released it second information note has an updated programme of the HLM, as well as speaker information and background papers for the five panel discussions and the civil society hearing. To read this note, please click here. To read the first information note, click here.