- Author
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
- Title
- HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific
- Imprint
- UNAIDS, October 2001, 81 pp
- Url
- http://data.unaids.org/Publications/IRC-pub03 Melbourne1001_WorkshopReport_en.pdf
- Abstract
"In the Asia Pacific, NHRIs have established a regional organisation to collaborate on common issues of mutual concern. This organisation called the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF). It recently held its sixth annual meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka in September 2001 and at this meeting Forum Members committed themselves to combat discrimination and human rights violations on the basis of HIV/AIDS. It agreed that HIV/AIDS should not be viewed as solely a health issue but as a human rights issue because of its serious civil, cultural, economic, political and social implications. It also reaffirmed its commitment to holding a
regional workshop on the issue of ‘HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific’ from 7th to 8th October in Melbourne, Australia."
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Countries
- Australia, Commonwealth of Australia
- Fiji, Republic of the Fiji Islands
- India, Republic of India
- Nepal, Kingdom of Nepal
- New Zealand