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which
blocking
progress on
HIV and AIDS
in Eastern
Europe and
Central
Asia. The
purpose of
the meeting
with the
activists in
the field
was to
ensure their
voices are
heard and
the final
recommendations
are based on
the practice
of the law.
The working method of the commission
was clear
and rather
global.
First the
commission
collected
letter based
submissions
from all the
active
activists
from the
region. With
these
submissions
the activist
wished to
drew the
commission’s
attention on
the problems
existing in
their native
countries.
The
commission
selected
several
probably
from a
number of
thousands of
the
submissions
and invited
their
authors. On
the first
day the
regional
dialogue
conducted in
parallel
regime and
the
organizers
separated
the
government
and civil
representative
in different
conference
halls. As
planed not
all
government
representatives
from those
13 countries
of the
region
attended and
just three
of them
joined to
the
activists on
the second
day.
Contrary to the government the
activists
were very
active with
full of
enthusiasm
raised their
concerns as
most with
from
personal
experience
with the
goal to help
the
commission
to make the
outmost to
address
their
governments
with the
most vivid
and
effective
recommendations
and
concrete
plan to
follow-up.
The Global Commission on HIV and Law
launched in
June 2010 by UNDP to
provide
global
leadership
on
HIV-related
legal and
human rights
issues by:
analyzing
interactions
between
legal
environments,
human rights
and HIV;
fostering
evidence-informed
public
dialogue on
the need for
right-based
law and
policy in
the context
of HIV and
finally
identifying
clear and
actionable
recommendations.
Vivik Divan a lawyer from Bombay, who
works with
the UNDP
Group’s
Cluster on
Human
Rights,
Gender and
Sexual
Diversities
in New York,
opened the
first day of
the regional
dialogue
among
activists
and gave a
rather short
introduction
about the
commission
and answered
some of the
questions.
He
underlined
the
independence
of the
Global
Commission
on HIV and
the Law from
the UN
clusters and
stated that
final
product of
the
commission
will be the
powerful
recommendations
not the book
with 500
pages.
JVR Prasada Rao the member Secretary,
Commission
pushed the
enthusiasm
on the
participants
stating:
“you can be
a change
agent…”
Throughout
the two day
dialogue the
activists
worked hard
and
dispersed
with the
hope that
their
country
governments
will listen
to the
recommendations
which should
be ready at
the end of
2011. |
