• HIV/TB and Human Rights

    Vulnerability to both HIV and TB infection is fueled by a wide range of human rights violations. People living with HIV/AIDS around the world continue to suffer abuse, stigmatization and discrimination and persons infected by TB and HIV/AIDS often face restrictions on their rights to freedom of movement.

  • Iran: Donors Should Reassess Anti-Drug Funding
    Aug 21, 2012
    United Nations agencies and international donors should immediately freeze financial and other assistance to Iran’s drug control programs, Human Rights Watch and Harm Reduction International (HRI) said today. The funding contributes to abusive prosecutions of drug suspects, the groups said.
  • HIV Conference: Include People With Disabilities
    Jul 20, 2012
    Donors supporting HIV programs, policymakers, and service providers should ensure that the world’s one billion people with disabilities have equal access to HIV prevention and treatment.
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  • Universal Periodic Review: Joint HRW submission on Cameroon with Affirmative Action, Alternatives Cameroun, ADEFHO, Camfaids, Evolve, Humanity First, IGLHRC
    Apr 18, 2013
    This submission, by Affirmative Action, Alternatives-Cameroun, the Association for the Defense of Gay and Lesbian Rights (ADEFHO), Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS (CAMFAIDS), Evolve, Human Rights Watch, Humanity First Cameroon, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), highlights shortcomings in Cameroon’s human rights record related to its treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. It is based on research conducted in Cameroon in 2009 and 2010 by ADEFHO, Alternatives-Cameroun, Human Rights Watch, and IGLHRC and published in our 2010 report Criminalizing Identities: Rights Abuses in Cameroon based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and on follow-up investigations conducted between 2010 and 2012.
  • Mississippi Moving Forward
    Mar 21, 2013
    Mississippi has one of the nation’s highest rates of HIV infection and deaths from AIDS. In March 2011, Human Rights Watch published "Rights at Risk: State Response to HIV in Mississippi." Since then, Mississippi has made progress in meeting the challenges of HIV; however, much remains to be done.
  • US: South Carolina Is Unfair to Prisoners Who Have HIV
    Jan 17, 2013
    On the Friday before Christmas, a federal judge in Alabama ordered an end to 25 years of segregation of HIV-positive prisoners in state prisons. District Court Judge Myron Thompson ruled that segregating HIV-positive prisoners in separate housing with unequal program opportunities, inferior mental health care and fewer work options violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. This landmark decision leaves South Carolina the only state in the Union that segregates prisoners with HIV. It is high time South Carolina abandoned this unnecessary, harmful and discriminatory policy.
  • The disabled often are denied information about sex and HIV
    Dec 1, 2012
    Over a billion people — 15 percent of the world’s population — live with a disability. These numbers should confer power and authority in decision making about all aspects of their lives, including to HIV and AIDS. Yet people with disabilities have been largely ignored in the global response to HIV.
  • Invisible Prisoners
    Sep 4, 2012
    JURIST Guest Columnist Katherine Todrys of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch recounts her experiences researching disease transmission and living standards in African prisons. She calls for sweeping criminal justice reforms to address the systemic problems of overcrowding, human rights abuses and wrongful imprisonment.
  • A Step Backward for AIDS Prevention
    Aug 28, 2012
    On World AIDS Day last year, President Obama recognized the progress against the HIV epidemic, saying there is "the real possibility of an AIDS-free generation." This possibility, however, was dealt a serious blow in January when Congress gutted a key component of HIV prevention by reinstating a ban on federal funding of syringe exchange programs.
  • Iran: Donors Should Reassess Anti-Drug Funding
    Aug 21, 2012
    United Nations agencies and international donors should immediately freeze financial and other assistance to Iran’s drug control programs, Human Rights Watch and Harm Reduction International (HRI) said today. The funding contributes to abusive prosecutions of drug suspects, the groups said.
  • India: Confirm Policy Ending Mandatory HIV Tests
    Jul 21, 2012

    In 2002 the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ended mandatory HIV testing for foreigners; however, despite more than a decade since the change, government websites and visa forms still suggest that there are mandatory HIV testing requirements and restrictions for HIV-infected foreigners.

  • HIV Conference: Include People With Disabilities
    Jul 20, 2012
    Donors supporting HIV programs, policymakers, and service providers should ensure that the world’s one billion people with disabilities have equal access to HIV prevention and treatment.
  • HIV and Disability
    Jul 20, 2012

    It is often assumed that people with disabilities face lower risk of HIV than their non-disabled peers – because they are asexual, because they are less likely to use drugs or alcohol, and because they face lower risks of violence or sexual assault than others. A growing body of research shows that these assumptions are wrong: persons with disabilities have the same rates of sexual activity and substance abuse as persons without disabilities. In fact, persons with disabilities may be more vulnerable to HIV because they are more likely to be abused, marginalized, discriminated against, illiterate, and poorer than the non-disabled population.

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