Human Rights Watch writes to note several important steps recently taken by the government of India towards improving protection for children living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. We nevertheless remain deeply concerned about the effect on children in India of widespread discrimination against people affected by HIV/AIDS.

Police violence against children remains rampant in Papua New Guinea, despite recent juvenile justice reform efforts, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Children and others in police custody are often raped and tortured.

Thousands of Romanian children and youth living with HIV face widespread discrimination that keeps many of them from attending school, obtaining necessary medical care, working, or even learning about their medical condition, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

In 2001, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni returned from the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS with an ambitious task: to launch Uganda’s first nationwide school-based HIV-prevention curriculum.

AIDS activists around the world face frequent government repression and abuse and need substantially increased support and protections.

Government neglect of millions of children affected by HIV/AIDS is fueling school drop-out across East and Southern Africa, Human Rights Watch charged in a new report released today. The region faces an unprecedented number of orphans, and governments must take urgent steps to keep these children in school and protect them from exploitation and other abuse.

Uganda, Africa’s “poster child” for successful reform, has fallen on hard times. After being lauded internationally for success in turning around a country destroyed by violence, repression and HIV/AIDS, Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni, and the National Resistance Movement he controls, have let this progress unravel.

Children around the world face systematic barriers to schooling that are undermining global progress towards universal primary education.