human rights

NAPWA Positive Women endorse new Terms of reference (TOR)

3 stonesNAPWA positve women have recently endorsed new Terms of reference for the advisory group.

Declaration of rights — launch speech

 The full text of the speech by Mr David Buchanan SC at the launch of the Declaration of Rights for People Living with HIV/AIDS on 18 November 2005.

Launch of the Declaration of Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS

 There are sound legal, ethical and practical reasons for protecting the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, a conference in Adelaide has been told.

NAPWA conference a work of art

 People living with HIV/AIDS are in “distinguished company” in their struggle for social justice and affordable medical care, attendees of the 2003 NAPWA Conference, held in Cairns in October, were told.

What is social justice?

p(standfirst).  Has social justice lost favour within HIV/AIDS advocacy, or are AIDS organisations just repackaging the same old social justice demands using different rhetoric? MARK CATTELL, JOHN GODWIN and TIM LEACH report on the social justice satellite session at the NAPWA conference.

Prominent human rights advocate to speak at HIV conference in Cairns

 Justice Marcus Einfeld, an eminent former judge of the Federal Court, will be the keynote speaker at the Ninth National Conference of People Living with HIV/AIDS, in Cairns later this month.

HREOC summit for peak disability organisations

On 4 and 5 December 2001, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) hosted a summit for peak disability organisations. NAPWA’s HIV Living Policy Analist, John Rule, presented the following submission to the meeting.
p(standfirst). The text of the declaration of rights adopted by the NAPWA Conference in 1993.

Declaration of rights

p(standfirst). The text of the declaration of rights adopted by the NAPWA Conference in 1993.