AcknowledgmentsThis report was written by Zama Coursen-Neff, based on her research in India in November and December 2003, and follow-up research from New York. Lois Whitman, executive director of the Children’s Rights Division; Joanne Csete, director of the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program; and Iain Levine, program director of Human Rights Watch, edited the report. James Ross provided legal review. Arvind Ganesan, Meenakshi Ganguly, Veena Siddharth, Tony Tate, Nisha Varia, and Saman Zia-Zarifi also reviewed and commented on the report. Alexandra Fisher, Fitzroy Hepkins, Andrea Holley, and Dana Sommers produced the report. Vivek Maru and Geoff Long provided research assistance. Human Rights Watch is deeply indebted to the following nongovernmental organizations and individuals: the Council of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kerala (CPK+); India HIV/AIDS Alliance; the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+); Dr. Jayasree A.K.; the Lawyers’ Collective HIV/AIDS UNIT; Maitreya; Dr. P. Manorama and staff of the Community Health Education Society (CHES); Anjali Gopalan and staff of the Naz Foundation (India) Trust; the Positive Women’s Network; Subha Raghavan; Durai Selvam and staff of Rural Education and Action Development (READ); Meena Seshu and staff of SANGRAM; Joe Thomas; Subhash Thottiparambil, Sex Workers Forum Kerala; the Thrani Center for Crisis Control; Dr. Koen Van Rompay, Sahaya International and University of California, Davis; World Vision; and the Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE). Human Rights Watch also thanks others who wished not to be named and the government officials who agreed to be interviewed for this report. Most of all, we thank the many children and their parents and guardians who spoke with us. Without them this report would not have been possible. Finally, we acknowledge with appreciation the support of the Oak Foundation and the Independence Foundation, which support our work on children’s rights; and the Ford Foundation and the Ladenburg Foundation, which provided funding that has enabled Human Rights Watch to pursue caste and gender-related research and advocacy in India. Human Rights Watch’s Work on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Not Enough Graves: The War on Drugs, HIV/AIDS, and Violations of Human Rights, 2004, http://hrw.org/reports/2004/thailand0704/ Unprotected: Sex, Condoms, and the Human Right to Health in the Philippines, 2004, http://hrw.org/reports/2004/philippines0504/ Lessons Not Learned: Human Rights Abuses and HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation, 2004, http://hrw.org/reports/2004/russia0404/ Deadly Delay: South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual Violence, 2004, http://hrw.org/reports/2004/southafrica0304/ Policy Paralysis: A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against Women and Girls in Africa, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/africa1203/ Injecting Reason: Human Rights and HIV Prevention for Injection Drug Users, California: A Case Study, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa0903/ Locked Doors: The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/china0803/ Ravaging the Vulnerable: Abuses Against Persons at High Risk of HIV in Bangladesh, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/bangladesh0803/ Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women’s Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/uganda0803/ Fanning the Flames: How Human Rights Abuses Are Fueling the AIDS Epidemic in Kazakhstan, 2003, http://hrw.org/reports/2003/kazak0603/ Abusing the User: Police Misconduct, Harm Reduction and HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/canada/ Double Standards: Women’s Property Rights Violations in Kenya, 2003, Borderline Slavery: Child Trafficking in Togo, 2003, Suffering in Silence: Human Rights Abuses and HIV Transmission to Girls in Zambia, 2003, http://hrw.org/reports/2003/zambia/ We’ll Kill You If You Cry: Sexual Violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict, 2003, http://hrw.org/reports/2003/sierraleone/ The FTAA, Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment, and Human Rights, a Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, 2002, http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/10/ftaa1029-bck.htm Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States, Texas: A Case Study,2002, http://hrw.org/reports/2002/usa0902/ Epidemic of Abuse: Police Harassment of HIV/AIDS Outreach Workers in India, 2002, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/india2/ The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo, 2002, http://hrw.org/reports/2002/drc/ In the Shadow of Death: HIV/AIDS and Children’s Rights in Kenya, 2001, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kenya/ Scared at School: Sexual Violence Against Girls in South African Schools, 2001, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/safrica/ Human Rights Watch’s Work on Children’s Rights in India Small Change:
Bonded Child Labor in India’s Silk Industry, 2003, Compounding Injustice: The Government's Failure to Redress Massacres in Gujarat, 2003, http://hrw.org/reports/2003/india0703/ “We Have No Orders to Save You”: State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat, 2002, http://hrw.org/reports/2002/india/ Broken People:
Caste Violence Against India’s “Untouchables,” 1999, Police Abuse and
Killings of Street Children in India, 1996, The Small Hands
of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India, 1996, Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels, 1995, http://www.hrw.org/reports/1995/India.htm
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