The UNAIDS Guide to the United Nations Human Rights Machinery: for AIDS service organizations, people living with HIV/AIDS, and others working in the area of HIV/AIDS and human rights. (Best Practice - Key Material) (UNAIDS, 1997, 92 p.): Foreword

The UNAIDS Guide to the United Nations Human Rights Machinery: for AIDS service organizations, people living with HIV/AIDS, and others working in the area of HIV/AIDS and human rights. (Best Practice - Key Material) (UNAIDS, 1997, 92 p.)

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		Foreword
		Introduction
		Section I. Relationship Between Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
		Section II. General Overview of the Main United Nations Human Rights Bodies
		Section III. Further Strategies for Successful ASO Input into United Nations Human Rights Activities
		Conclusion
		Section IV. Annexes

Foreword

UNAIDS is committed to human rights, to a multisectoral approach, and to support for nongovernmental organizations, AIDS Service Organizations, community-based organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS in their work with HIV/AIDS. In this context, UNAIDS hopes that this guide will be a useful asset to existing, planned and future human rights activities; that it will result in more documentation of HIV-related human rights issues and more advocacy and action to counter HIV-related discrimination; that it will encourage the United Nations human rights bodies to take on and maintain HIV-related issues under their respective mandates; and that it will assist States to develop a positive policy and legal framework for effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes.

Peter Piot
Executive Director, UNAIDS