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Almost 700 civil society organizations have received special accreditation by UN Member States to attend the High Level Meeting on AIDS. ECOSOC-accredited organizations pre-registered more than 400 individuals. In total, more that 1700 individuals from civil society have been accredited or have pre-registered to attend the meeting.
Press releases from different civil society organizations, key statements, calendar of events, speakers’ information and other details of interest to media covering the UN review are centralized here.
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UN Review Opens with Calls to Eliminate Travel Restrictions for People Living with HIV
Action for Universal Access 2010: Myths and Realities
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Contact: Callie Long, 1-647-267-9813, media@ua2010.org
Advocates Protest Human Rights Violations of Sex Workers in Cambodia
1:30 PM at the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodian to the United Nations
327 East 50th Street near Second Avenue
The Cambodian Government under the influence of the US has passed a law against sex work. Since March, sex workers have been rounded up in raids,arrested, detained, denied medical services, beaten and raped by police. At least three sex workers have died in police custody. Others are being denied life-saving medicines. Earlier this year, Cambodia passed an extremely punitive law criminalizing sex work. We have evidence of grievous human rights violations committed against sex workers. One sex worker said, ³I was put on the van and brought to the center but they told me not to get down when we reached the center. Four of them raped me one after another and then they allowed me to get away from the place.² Police and detention centre guards openly abuse the women. Their money, jewelry, and other valuables such as phones are routinely stolen by the police. HIV-positive people who are put into the center cannot have the regular ARVs they are required to take everyday. Some women have already fallen ill as a result of the abuses and the violence committed by the security guards. No care or medical treatment has been made available to any women for their injuries or medical conditions. Dy Many of the Cambodian Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS said, ³So while Cambodia is proud of its success story in the fight against AIDS, we as women living with HIV are concerned that this success is now being undone by this violation of the rights of sex workers.
Keep the Promise: HIV and AIDS Campaign
Faiths pray to stop AIDS on eve of UN review
“Through our common faith, we are keepers of the flame of hope,” remarked Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Undersecretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNFPA, to several hundred worshipers gathered in St. Peter’s Church in New York City for an interfaith prayer service on the eve of a United Nations High Level Review on AIDS.
UN Webcast Schedule for Tuesday, 10 June 2008
This article contains links for the UN Webcast and the Press Conference Schedule Page, as well as the UN Webcast schedule.
Coalition Calls for Elimination of Travel Restrictions for HIV-Positive Travelers
Action for Universal Access 2010: Myths and Realities
US, China among governments called to task
Monday, 9 June 2008
More than 70 governments including the United States, China, South Korea, Singapore, and many countries in the Middle East are being urged to eliminate travel restrictions imposed on people living with HIV at an upcoming United Nations (UN) meeting on AIDS.
A letter signed by over 345 organizations and addressed to heads of state and UN missions asks governments to publicly lift such restrictions during the UN High Level Review on AIDS in New York, June 10-11. HIV-related travel restrictions “are increasingly obsolete and discriminatory in a world with more access to treatment and ever-increasing mobility,” states the letter.
Press Release: General Assembly Should Reverse Ban on Human Rights and Sexual Health Groups
(New York, June 5, 2008) - The United Nations General Assembly should reverse its decision to exclude three human rights and sexual health nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from its June 10 high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, a coalition of human rights groups and international AIDS organizations said today.
Signatures as of 5 June to Civil Society letter on HIV-Positive Travel Restrictions
Please find below Civil Society Letter on HIV-related Travel Restrictions Addressed to the UN Missions and Heads of State in Countries with Restrictions.
International coalition urges governments and donors to keep their promises to women and girls
WOMEN ARE STILL WAITING FOR GOVERNMENTS TO REDUCE WOMEN’S AND GIRLS’ RISK TO VIOLENCE AND HIV&AIDS!
NEW YORK, 6 JUNE 2008 - Government officials and AIDS activists from around the world will convene at the United Nations in New York from 10-12 June to review the global HIV/AIDS response. At the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001, governments committed to promote and protect women’s human rights and reduce women’s vulnerability to HIV&AIDS by eliminating all forms of discrimination including violence against women.
IAS CALLS FOR ACTION INSTEAD OF RHETORIC AT UN MEETING ON AIDS
The International AIDS Society (IAS) today urged government and fellow civil society leaders attending the upcoming UN High Level Meeting on AIDS to address the gap between commitments and results on universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment interventions. IAS President Dr Pedro Cahn noted that the upcoming UN High Level Meeting, to be held 10 - 11 June in New York, was the last opportunity for the international community to review progress in meeting commitments made in the 2001 Declaration of Commitment and 2006 Political Declaration.
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