AIDS 08 Conference's Media Library
AIDS08: Peter Piot on Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, on why a human rights approach is not the best approach as well from a policy and effectiveness perspective, and on why countries that criminalize homosexuali...
Global, Mexico
HIV-AIDS, LGBTQ, Sexual rights
AIDS08: 'Now More Than Ever' Rally on Human Rights
Over 1000 people attended a rally at the International AIDS Conference 08 in Mexico City calling for the need for the strongest possible linkages between human rights and the global struggle against H...
Global, Mexico
Health, HIV-AIDS, Sexual rights
AIDS08: Alison Symington on Women's Rights and Ending the Pandemic
Alison Symington from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network on the need for human rights, and particularly women's rights, to be at the heart of the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; filmed as part of ...
Canada, Mexico
Religion, Women's rights
AIDS 08: Siphiwe Hlophe from SWAPOL on the Right to Family
Siphiwe Hlophe from Swaziland Positive Living speaks out about the right to family for HIV+ women; filmed as part of a participatory video project at the International AIDS Conference, Mexico City 200...
Mexico, Swaziland
HIV-AIDS, Women's rights
AIDS 08: Pisey Ly from Womyn's Agenda for Change on Sex Worker Rights
Pisey Ly, an organizer and human rights activist from Cambodia, speaks out about her experiences of working for sex worker rights, and dealing with her own cultural assumptions; filmed as part of a pa...
