New Law to Combat Discrimination Against Venezuelans with HIV/AIDS Published on Tuesday, 06 January 2015 14:44 Santa Elena de Uairen, January 6th, 2015. (venezuelanalysis.com)- A law protecting the equal rights of Venezuelan people living with HIV/AIDS and their families has…
THE island country of Palau located in the western Pacific Ocean has become the latest to decriminalise male homosexuality. There are 79 countries globally that still treat gay men as criminals. A quarter of these countries are Australia’s near neighbours — eight are in the Pacific region and 12 in Asia. Kaleidoscope Australia, a not-for-profit organisation promoting human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the Asia Pacific region, today welcomed the move by the Government of Palau to reform its criminal laws
Ghana is instituting a law to address HIV and AIDS related stigma, discrimination and human rights abuses of persons living with HIV/AIDS, a senior official said on Friday. Angela El-Adas, Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, said the new bill will help the Ghanaian legislature to effect provisions in the constitution to address the situation. “This is because sometimes it is a little difficult to do interpretation (of old laws) and use that to guide decisions which are taken whenever we have instances of human rights abuse or discrimination or stigma,” she told Xinhua in a recent interview.
HIV-positive women sue Kenya government and NGOs over sterilisation Published on Thursday, 11 December 2014 10:59 Médecins sans Frontières (France) and Marie Stopes International named in lawsuit claiming violation of human, constitutional and reproductive rights Five HIV-positive women in Kenya…
Inextricable links: HIV and human rights Published on Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:05 The AIDS epidemic has been characterized by the stigma and discrimination of people who are all too often already on the margins of society. This marginalization has…