Legal environments affecting the HIV response in South-East Asia: New report

Bangkok – A regional review of laws in South-East Asia examines the legal environments affecting HIV responses among people living with HIV, sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who inject drugs, young people and migrants.

Launched this week, HIV and the Law in South-East Asia is a legal review by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Taskforce on AIDS. The report is part of the ASEAN Cities Getting to Zero Initiative.

Addressing the Development Dimensions of Drug Policy

In April 2016, the UN General Assembly will hold a Special Session on Drugs to assess and debate the successes and failures of current drug control policies. UNDP is a member of the UN System Task Force on Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking, established in 2011 to provide guidance on how to integrate responses to transnational organized crime into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding, security and development initiatives and to develop a roadmap of key initiatives and activities relating to its mandate.

UNDP and UNAIDS back efforts by least-developed countries to secure sustainable...

Geneva – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) would like to call attention to the urgent and compelling case for the international community to take all measures possible to protect the health of people living in least-developed countries (LDCs).

Helen Clark: Statement on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator
Statement on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
United Nations, New York

The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia provides an opportunity to reaffirm that the rights of LGBT people are a matter of concern to all of us working on human development.

Human beings cannot benefit from development progress if their lives are defined by inequity, exclusion, and policies which treat them as less than equal. This is true of all people who encounter marginalisation and injustice, whether they be women living under laws which fail to provide equal status in all spheres of life, or persons of any gender who are ostracised because of their ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, or gender identity.