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Report to Global Commission on HIV/AIDS, 2011
The Best Practices Policy Project and the Desiree Alliance submitted a report to the "High Income Countries Dialogue" convened by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. The meeting will take place on 16-17 September 2011 in California. The dialogue aims to contribute to efforts for creating enabling legal environments which support effective HIV responses. Sharmus Outlaw, a co-coordinator of the Desiree Alliance commented in the report that, "Many in society already incorrectly fear that sex workers spread disease. Using these laws [making engaging in sex work while living with HIV a felony] to arrest people living with HIV whips up fear against sex workers, transgender people and men who have sex with men."
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Report on human rights challenges and responses in the context of HIV and AIDS
In September 2010 the Best Practices Policy Project reported on key human rights questions in regards to HIV/AIDS in the United States for sex workers, people in the sex trade and vulnerable communities in general. This report was submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in partnership with the Desiree Alliance, Bayswan, Women with a Vision, HIPS, Madre Tierra, St James Infirmary, SWOP-USA, SWOP-Tucson, SWOP-NYC and SWANK, SWOP-Colorado, SWOP-Chicago and other organizations. Key issues emerging included the lack of mention of sex work in the US National HIV Strategy, human rights violations of people living with HIV who are arrested for solicitation, and the use of condoms as evidence. Read the report and download it as a pdf.
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Report the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights 2010
In 2010 we had the opportunity to collaborate with organizations working with sex workers and related groups, such as BAYSWAN, Desiree Alliance, SWOP USA, St James Infirmary and many others, to produce a report about the state of sex workers' rights in the United States to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights. The Best Practices Policy Project was one of only five human rights groups in the United States that was selected by the Sexual Rights Initiative submitting reports during the 9th Universal Periodic Review. Download a copy of a pdf of the report.
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Report
to the UN Division for the Advancement of Women
Members
of the Best Practices Policy Project Steering Committee submitted a
report to the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) on
October 14, 2005. The full report can be downloaded below. The UN DAW had requested; data andstatistics about any type of violence against women, good practice examples from the actual experience of NGO work,;and suggestions of key issues the proposed DAW study should address.
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