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The OSI Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) periodically distributes information on key sexual health and rights advocacy issues, events, and grant opportunities as they arise. The July 2008 issue includes a list of International AIDS Conference activities, upcoming conferences and meetings and requests for proposals. Subscribe to receive updates by email.
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International AIDS Conference Activities and Updates
Women’s and Girls’ Rally and March: "All Women, All Rights"
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Women around the world are organizing for the upcoming XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. In particular, a women's and girls' rally and march is being organized. The umbrella slogan of this event will be "All Women, All Rights!" All are invited to participate in this rally and march.
The goal of the march is to promote a human rights perspective that includes civil, economic and cultural rights; to allow a broad range of women's groups to express their specific issues under this slogan; and to address stigma and discrimination faced by women living with HIV/AIDS.
International Rally for Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
August 7, 2008, 1:30 PM, Global Village
All attendees of the International AIDS Conference are invited to participate in the first international rally for human rights and HIV/AIDS. Participants will gather at 1:30 PM on Thursday, August 7, in front of the main stage in the conference’s Global Village, to demand human rights for all people living with and at risk of HIV, as well as vastly greater attention to human rights in response to HIV.
Additionally, exciting events (including hot topic debates, workshops, human rights campaigns, and much more) will take place every day in the Human Rights Networking Zone, located in the conference's Global Village in Networking Zone 421, right beside the entrance to the food court. If you are interested in planning an event or activity to take place in the Human Rights Networking Zone, contact Eleonora Jimenez or Ralf Jurgens.
Pre-Conference Sex Work Meeting: Universal Action for Sex Work Inclusion
July 30-August 2, 2008
Hotel Plaza Florencia, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Aproase, A.C. and the Network of Sex Work Projects invite sex workers to a pre-International AIDS Conference meeting about sex work. All sex workers and sex work activists who have received IAC scholarships already have a place reserved at the meeting, and any other interested participants should email Aproase for more information and to confirm attendance.
Davida/Daspu Fashion Show
August 4, 2008, 3:30 pm, Global Village
Daspu, the fashion line from Brazilian sex worker organization, Davida, will be holding a fashion show on August 4 at 3:30 pm at the Global Village.
Call for Proposals
ILGA-Europe Fifth Call for Proposals: Human Rights Violations Documentation Fund
Deadline: July 15, 2008
The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)-Europe announces its fifth call for proposals within its Human Rights Violations Documentation Fund with support of the Sigrid Rausing Trust. For more information, email Maxim Anmeghichean. The deadline for the fifth round of applications is July 15, 2008.
Conferences and Meetings
Call for Abstracts: VII IASSCS Conference
"Contested Innocence - Sexual Agency in Public and Private Space"
April 16-18, 2009, Hanoi, Viet Nam
The seventh biennial meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), entitled "Contested Innocence - Sexual Agency in Public and Private Space," will focus on sociocultural analyses of issues surrounding sexual agency in public and private spaces. Cultural and political belief systems profoundly affect the ways in which sexual knowledge and practices are produced, situated, and represented in society. This theme invites conversations on the interplay of sexual innocence and sexual scandal in the media, of sexual agency in the context of limited public knowledge, and the development of sexual rights, human rights and sexual diversity in a post-colonial context.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Regional Meeting
August 24-26, 2008, Abuja, Nigeria
In preparation for the 2009 Durban Review Conference, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is holding a regional meeting from August 24-26, 2008, in Abuja, Nigeria. Lump sum grants have been made available by the OHCHR for the participation of NGOs in Regional Preparatory Meetings.
