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This fascinating article offers a critical analysis of the role of sex workers community groups in HIV prevention and care in India.
Year of publication: 2010 Theme: Health and HIV
60435-Cornish_Banerji_Shukla_2010_CBOs_social_construction_of_solutions.pdf
Author:
Flora Cornish, Riddhi Ghosh Banerji and Anuprita Shukla
PLRI partner Meena Seshu gave the prestigious Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture at the 2010 International AIDS Conference.
Meena reflects on the approach that her organisation SANGRAM has used to support the work of VAMP the collective of women in sex work.
She introduces SANGRAM’s Bill of Rights which sets out guidelines for programming interventions around HIV and AIDS:
Theme: Health and HIV Theme: Human Rights and Law Author: Meena Seshu Relevant URL: Link to the film on the International Women's Health Coalition website
by Cheryl Overs
For me AIDS 2010 was the culmination of months of work as a Community Programming Committee (CPC) member and co-chair of the Global Village. It was also the first time in several years that I have seen all the global and regional sex workers rights activists. In that time the Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and other networks have formalised and gathered funding and rights awareness has spread to more countries. So it was wonderful to see old friends and to meet the wonderful new activists from countries as diverse as Guyana, Kenya, USA, South Africa, UK, China and Uganda.
It was great to catch up with people who have gone from being peer educators to managing programmes and public advocacy, to see the materials sex workers are producing and to see the NSWP itself thriving under the leadership of my old friend Ruth Morgan Thomas (three months older than me). I am sure that for many people the Red Umbrellas would be the most potent symbol of the struggle for human rights they remember from the conference.
On Monday August 2, 2010 police in Beijing detained Ye Haiyan, an activist with community based organisation the China Women's Rights Workshop, after she joined other sex workers in publicly petitioning for the Chinese government to decriminalise prostitution.
The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) have released a statement in which they explain how they stand in solidarity with Ye Haiyan, human rights defenders, and sex workers who speak up against stigma, discrimination, and the criminalisation of their livelihoods.
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Time: September 15-17, 2010
Venue: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Deadline: August 15
Migration has transformed feminists’ ideological conflict about the meaning of prostitution. From being a two-sided debate about whether ’sex work is work’ or ‘violence against women’, the discussion now must consider migration policies that favour ‘highly skilled’, white-collar and technical professionals over those willing to take less prestigious jobs in the informal sector, including the sex industry.
The CAPRISA 004 trial assessed effectiveness and safety of a 1% vaginal gel formulation of tenofovir, a nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor, for the prevention of HIV acquisition in women. A double-blind, randomized controlled trial was conducted comparing tenofovir gel with placebo gel in sexually active, HIVuninfected18 to 40 year-old women in urban and rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa HIV serostatus, safety,sexual behavior and gel and condom use were assessed at monthly follow-up visits for 30 months.
Year of publication: 2010 Theme: Health and HIV
science.1193748v1[1].pdf
Author:
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S. Abdool Karim, Janet A. Frohlich, Anneke C. Grobler, Cheryl Baxter, Leila E. Mansoor, Ayesha B.M. Kharsany, Sengeziwe Sibeko, Koleka P. Mlisana, Zaheen Omar, Tanuja N Gengiah, Silvia Maarschalk, Natasha Arulappan, Mukelisiwe Mlotshwa, Lynn Morris, Douglas Taylor, on behalf of the CAPRISA 004 Trial Group
Relevant URL:
Sciencexpress
This is a report of a meeting to discuss a research tool specifically designed to assess this issue by measuring the impact of Human Rights & Trafficking programmes and policies.
Over the last few years the need for a human rights approach to trafficking in human beings has been increasingly recognised. Underlying this need are two concerns:
1.The lack of protection and assistance that current policies offer to trafficked persons, despite the fact that trafficking is generally recognised as a serious violation of human rights
Year of publication: 2010 Theme: Human Rights and Law Theme: Migration and Mobilityassessing impact of anti-trafficking.pdf
Author:
Aim For Human Rights
