Subject: [fem-women2000 651] Women's GlobalNet #169: HIV/AIDS and Racism
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HIVIWTC WOMEN'S GLOBALNET #169 Initiatives and Activities of Women Worldwide by Anne S. Walker April 11, 2001 PLEASE NOTE: This issue of IWTC Women痴 GlobalNet features the FACT SHEET of the Conference of NGOs at the UN (CONGO). If you would like to receive this Fact Sheet directly from CONGO, please contact Janice Fett, CONGO Communications Coordinator, at: <congongo2@aol.com> CONFERENCE OF NGOs FACT SHEET, APRIL 2001 THE BEIJING AGENDA: HIV/AIDS AND RACISM Many NGOs who participated in the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on 易omen 2000(Beijing+5) are following the efforts to advance the Beijing agenda and to intersect gender with important themes in other United Nations conferences and special sessions. This is an occasional Fact Sheet compiled by the Conference of NGOs (CONGO) to provide information about upcoming events and to encourage the participation of women in these processes. CONGO urges you to share this e-mail with other NGOs via e-mail or printed copies. An UNGASS will take place in New York 25-27 June 2001 on HIV/AIDS. The intersectionality of gender and HIV/AIDS is being discussed in informal General Assembly consultations that are preparing the Special Session. In developing countries, women are usually victims of HIV/AIDS, through both coerced and voluntary sexual behavior. Along with their infected babies and children they now bear the brunt of the AIDS pandemic, yet they may be discriminated against in the prevention and treatment as well as in access to information in their own language. NGOs unable to participate actively in the special session can join the break-the-silence listserv, a worldwide forum for NGOs to have input in to the process. E-mail: break-the-silence@hdnet.org to subscribe to the listserv. UNAIDS is the secretariat for the special session. Web: http://www.unaids.org/. More information about the HIV/AIDS Conference and links to official and NGO websites can be found on the CONGO website at <http://www.conferenceofngos.org/txt/ngomeet/hivaids.htm> . The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Related Intolerance (WCAR) will take place in South Africa 31 August 慰 7 September 2001. A WCAR expert group meeting in Croatia on 闇ender and Racial Discriminationcalled for an intersectional methodology that could 印ncover ways in which various structures of subordination converge to the disadvantage of women and girls in both public and private life and should also establish instruments for remedies and redress.There has been growing recognition that various types of discrimination do not always affect men and women equally or in the same way and that gender discrimination may be intensified and facilitated by other forms of discrimination. The Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights is the secretariat for the conference. Web: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/racism/index.htm. More information about the World Conference Against Racism and links to official and NGO sites can be found on the CONGO website at <http://www.conferenceofngos.org/txt/nogmeet/wcar.htm> Intersectionality was also a key theme of the 45th Session of the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) in March. The CSW focused on the thematic issues of Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS as well as Gender and all forms of discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Women痴 caucuses urged their members to lobby for the intersection of gender with the other issues in the CSW multi-year program of work. More information about the 45th CSW session, the adopted agreed conclusions on gender and all forms of discrimination, and plans for the resumed session 9-11 May can be found on the Commission website at <http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/45sess.htm> To reinforce consciousness and enhance dialogue around crosscutting themes, CONGO is organizing a series of meetings on themes of importance to the Beijing Agenda in connection with these and other UN sessions in the coming months. During the Commission on Human Rights being held in Geneva through 27 April, there will be meetings on 易omen and HIV/AIDS, 袷rmed Conflict and Women at the Peace Tableand another on 闇ender, Racism and Sustainable Developmentand each will feature a guest speaker from an African NGO as well as other experts. Similar meetings will take place at the Third World Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Brussels 14-21 May and at the High-Level Segment of ECOSOC, in July 2001 in Geneva. 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