The Links between Human Rights Abuses and HIV Transmission to Girls in Zambia
Sexual abuse of girls in Zambia fuels the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the strikingly higher HIV prevalence among girls than boys, Human Rights Watch said today. Concerted national and international efforts to protect the rights of girls and young women are key to curbing the AIDS epidemic’s destructive course.
Human Rights Watch today released a new 121-page report, “Suffering in Silence:Human Rights Abuses and HIV
Transmission to Girls in Zambia,” which details sexual abuse and other human rights abuses of Zambian girls, especially girls orphaned by AIDS. The report documents many incidents of abuse of
orphan girls at the hands of their guardians. Some of the girls are as young as 11 years old.
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ISBN: 1564322831
ISBN: 1564322831
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- I. SUMMARY
- II. RECOMMENDATIONS
- III. METHODS
- IV. BACKGROUND
- V. ABUSES RELATED TO RISK OF HIV TRANSMISSION: VOICES OF GIRLS
- VI. SHORTCOMINGS AND RISK FACTORS WITHIN THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK
- VII. STATE RESPONSE
- VIII. INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE
- APPENDIX I: CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
- APPENDIX II: EXCERPTS FROM THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
- APPENDIX III: DECLARATION OF COMMITMENT OF THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON HIV/AIDS, JUNE 2001
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS