Resources on Human Rights

Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), 25-27 June 2001. http://www.un.org/

Advocacy Guide to the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the International Council of AIDS Service Organisations (ICASO), October 2001. http://www.icaso.org/

International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations, New York and Geneva, 1998. http://www.ohchr.org/  

The Guidelines have been revised to reflect new standards in HIV/AIDS treatment and evolving international law on the right to health. HIV/AIDS and Human Rights International Guidelines, Revised Guideline 6, Access to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support, OHCHR and UNAIDS, March 2002. http://www.unhchr.ch/

NGO Summary of the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights and An Advocate's Guide to International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, ICASO, 1999. http://www.icaso.org/

Watchirs, H., A Rights Analysis Instrument to Measure Compliance with the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, Australian National Council on AIDS and Related Diseases, 1999. http://www.ancahrd.org/

Legislative audits applying this approach have been undertaken in Nepal and Cambodia:

  • HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: A Legislative Audit, National Centre for AIDS and STD Control, POLICY Project Nepal and Forum for Women, Law and Development, 2004.
  • Ward, C. and Watchirs, H., Cambodian HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Legislative Audit, USAID and POLICY Project Cambodia, 2003. www.policyproject.com

Programming HIV/AIDS: A Human Rights Approach - A Tool for Development and Community-Based Organizations Responding to HIV/AIDS, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2004. http://www.aidslaw.ca/

HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in a Nutshell, ICASO and the International Health and Human Rights Programme of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 2004. http://www.icaso.org/

Vision Paper: HIV-Positive Women and Human Rights, International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), 2004. http://www.icw.org/