Languages
Universal Action Now: AIDS Conference 2008 and Moving Forward!
Administrator: .Bukeni Waruzi
- Created: Jul 9 08, Members: 11 (view members)
- Media: 45, E-Actions: 0, Discussions: 0, Events: 0
Regions: Global
Issues: HIV-AIDS
This is a dedicated section of the Hub for the Cultural Programme for the Mexico City AIDS2008 conference - providing an opportunity for the global activist and cultural community (including those who are unable to attend the conference) to participate in building a kaleidoscopic picture of human rights-based HIV/AIDS activism and media-making around the world.
Here you can find videos, photographs and blog posts from stakeholders on the issue (NGOs, practitioners, advocates, scholars and researchers, and people living with HIV/AIDS, or PLWHA).
* We've highlighted some of the Hub's key media items in the Spotlight section below; to see more, just click on 'All Group Media'.
* Watch video featuring key HIV/AIDS advocates attending AIDS2008, shot as part of a participatory video project in which attendees were provided with training on how to film interviews and asked to highlight key voices speaking out on why human rights needs to be at the heart of the global struggle against HIV/AIDS.
* If you work on HIV/AIDS, we invite you to join the Hub to feature your work, including videos, photographs, audio, and campaigns - we'll feature new HIV/AIDS-related media here.
* To learn more about this special coverage, including activities in Mexico City, visit http://hub.witness.org/AIDS08
Please Spotlight
AIDS 08: Francesca Semoso on Rights for HIV+ people in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
AIDS 08 Conference, Aug 8 08
Witnessed: 3527 times
Regions: Mexico, Papua New Guinea
Issues: HIV-AIDS
Lisa Johnson from Housing Works at AIDS2008
AIDS 08 Conference, Aug 8 08
Witnessed: 3651 times
Regions: Global, Mexico, United States
Issues: HIV-AIDS, Housing, Shelter
AIDS 08: Pisey Ly from Womyn's Agenda for Change on Sex Worker Rights
AIDS 08 Conference, Aug 8 08
Witnessed: 5983 times
Regions: Cambodia, Mexico
Issues: HIV-AIDS, Labor, Sexual rights
AIDS08: 'Now More Than Ever' Rally on Human Rights
AIDS 08 Conference, Aug 21 08
Witnessed: 4257 times
Regions: Global, Mexico
Issues: Health, HIV-AIDS, Sexual rights
Part of the Cultural Programme for the AIDS2008 conference - an opportunity for the global activist/cultural community (including those who are unable to attend the conference) to participate in building a kaleidoscopic picture of human rights-based HIV/AIDS activism and media-making around the world.
WITNESS is a human rights organization that uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. As part of the AIDS 2008 conference, this Hub group has been created to draw on the power of media to advocate for an effective universal action against the contemporary human rights crisis: HIV/AIDS.
Countries have committed to fight this pandemic, they have listed it as one of the millennium development goals; to date nothing has been achieved, the spread of the virus is continuing and millions of infected people, all categories, are dying every day. The time has come to deliver treatment for all, to implement effective policies and to allocate enough resources to fight the pandemic.