Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women
and HIV/AIDS
Strengthening
Resistance
focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public
health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report
uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on
innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links
between violence and HIV/AIDS. From street theater to telenovelas/soap operas
to traditional lobbying, activists in both VAW and HIV/AIDS communities are
beginning to work together to focus attention to ways both crises are causes
and consequences of each other. Neither can be addressed adequately without
taking into account the links between them and the human rights implications of
each crisis on its own, and in conjunction with the other.
Strengthening
Resistance
is designed as an overview of the most salient issues, and is meant for
activists and policy makers alike who may be familiar with HIV/AIDS, violence
against women or human rights but not necessarily the nexus across all of these
areas. The report highlights nine creative advocacy initiatives from different
countries and regions, offers recommendations to a range of actors and contains
a resource section for further study.
Funded,
in part, by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) through the
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.
Researched,
written and edited by Cynthia Rothschild, Mary Anne Reilly and Sara A.
Nordstrom.
Center for Womens Global Leadership, 2006; 40 pages. ISBN 0-9711412-4-X.
US$6.95 (plus shipping & handling)
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Current
Political Challenges
Violence
Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Intersecting Pandemics
Violence
Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Interlinked Human Rights Concerns
Innovative
Advocacy: Case Studies
- Uganda:
Raising Voices
- India:
Breakthrough
- Nicaragua:
Puntos de Encuentro
- Vietnam:
The Institute for Social Development Studies
- Spain:
Creación Positiva
- South
Africa: Mothertongue
- Belize:
Women's Issues Network
- Haiti:
Vizyon Dwa Ayisyen
- South
Africa: Men as Partners
Conclusion
Recommendations
Further
Reading
Acknowledgments