Tag Human Rights

Action, BlogAdvocating for Stigma-free Healthcare for Female Sex Workers

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While conducting community consultations in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, the Koshish programme team learned that female sex workers (FSWs) in the district faced numerous challenges in accessing healthcare […]Read More

20
March
2014

Advocacy, Blog‘207 against 377’: A Step Towards Reclaiming Our Rights

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December 11th, 2013 was a black day in the history of India’s human rights movement. On this day, the Supreme Court of India set aside the historic judgment of Delhi […]Read More

12
March
2014

Advocacy, BlogZero Discrimination Day 2014: Ending the epidemic of discrimination against PLHIV in India

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March 1 is Zero Discrimination Day. HIV-related discrimination continues to plague the lives of people living with HIV (PLHIV). They are treated in dehumanizing ways, face barriers in accessing basic […]Read More

28
February
2014

Advocacy, BlogI did the HIV test: June 1994

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It was one of those moments. Alone at home, I looked up the number for a diagnostic lab close by. When I got there, my heart skipped a beat to […]Read More

27
February
2014

Advocacy, Blog‘Has anything changed?’ A Decade of International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

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The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers was created to call attention to violence and other hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the world. Conceptualised by […]Read More

17
December
2013

Action, BlogKeeping Violence at Bay in Andhra Pradesh: International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers 2013

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“I filed an application for a ration card in the mandal (block) administrative office. The clerk made me come to office 15 times, and every time he slept with me,” […]Read More

16
December
2013

Advocacy, BlogA Dark Day for India

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I am crouched over my work desk at the Naz Foundation (India) Trust, combing through another draft of the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against Section 377 of the Indian Penal […]Read More

11
December
2013

Advocacy, BlogInternational Human Rights Day 2013: Reflections on Rights Situation of PLHIV and Key Populations in India

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Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, there has been a slow but steady expansion of international agreements that promote and protect the rights […]Read More

9
December
2013

Action, BlogThe Pain of Being ‘the Other’: How Stigma Fuels HIV/AIDS among People Who Inject Drugs in India

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Born in a poor family in a remote district of Haryana, Paul (name changed) learnt from childhood to be by himself. He was dragged to work at the age of […]Read More

4
December
2013

Advocacy, BlogWhat Difference Does Discrimination Make? Reflections for World AIDS Day 2013

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I have just returned from a visit to India to see what is being done in tackling HIV and AIDS. Back at the start of the epidemic in 1986 I […]Read More

29
November
2013