Restrictions on AIDS Activists in China

I. Summary

II. Case Study: The Closure of Orchid Orphanage

III. Introduction

Methodology

IV. Continuing Crackdown in Henan Province

Detention and harassment of Henan AIDS activists

The mistreatment of activists helping AIDS orphans

V. Harassment of Activists Working with Persons at High Risk of HIV Transmission

Activists working with injection drug users and sex workers

Restrictions on AIDS information for men who have sex with men

Internet censorship

VI. Institutional Barriers to AIDS Organizations

NGO registration and management laws

Registering as a commercial enterprise

Bureaucratic harassment

Obligations under international law

VII. Conclusion

VIII. Recommendations

To the government of the People’s Republic of China

On civil society

On HIV/AIDS policy

To the Henan provincial government and other local authorities in China

To the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international donors to HIV/AIDS programs in China

To U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

To the U.N. Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS and other U.N. agencies with AIDS programs in China

To international partners in bilateral rights dialogues with China

Acknowledgements

June 2005   Vol. 17, No. 5(C)