Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS

For PDF version, click here.

To order hard copy, please contact:

Women, Ink.
777 UN Plaza
NY, NY 10017 USA
Tel: (1-212) 687-8633
Fax: (1-212) 661-2704
Email: wink@womenink.org
Website: http://www.womenink.org

Resource Net Friday File, Issue 322, published by The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Friday April 20, 2007, an interview with Cynthia Rothschild of the Center for Women's Global Leadership on their publication: Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS, by Kathambi Kinoti
http://www.awid.org/go.php?list=
analysis&prefix=analysis&item=00376

November 29, 2006: For Immediate Release
Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Human Rights Report Focuses on Women's Advocacy

Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006)

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)

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

Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006)

Table of Contents