Human Rights Count!

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Human Rights Count!

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Human Rights Count! is an evidence gathering programme which documents HIV related human rights violations against people living with HIV. The programme is the first human rights violation documentation project that is based on a methodology driven by people living with HIV. Evidence gathered will inform advocacy campaigns against these violations.

People living with HIV from around the world will be able to submit human rights violations in their community, city and country electronically or by mail. GNP+ works with focal points at regional and national networks of people living with HIV to research, verify and analyse these violations.

GNP+ has developed a structured form used to elicit quantitative and qualitative data regarding the violations, which will be available as an online questionnaire and as a writable PDF. Individuals or networks can also print the questionnaire and fill it out by hand.

By collecting the information through focal points in the region, there will be a strong link to regional and national campaigns. In addition, working through communities of people living with HIV will increase the level of understanding of rights and through this empower people to assert their rights. Reporting forms will shortly be available both online and at selected focal points.

Human Rights Count in Indonesia, Nepal

Sunday, 29 August 2010

HRC in Nepal

The Asia-Pacific Network of People living with HIV in partnership with national networks in Nepal and Indonesia, implemented the Human Rights Count! programme during April to June 2010. In both countries people living with HIV and human rights activists received training on human rights and the documentation of HIV related violations through the implementation of the Human Rights Count!

Over a short period of time interviewers in Indonesia documented 200 human rights violations, while interviewers in Nepal collected 30 violations. Currently the data are being analysed by the networks in these countries. Some preliminary results were presented during AIDS2010.

First Human Rights Count! training in Zambia

Sunday, 20 September 2009

Human Rights Count! is an evidence gathering programme documenting HIV related human rights violations against people living with HIV both through an online questionnaire and through face to face interviews. In the joint GNP+/WAC programme "HIV leadership through accountability" Human Rights Count! is one of the evidence collecting programmes that will feed into the national campaign of Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria.

In the week of 14-19 September 2009, the first training of trainers using the Human Rights Count questionnaire took place in Zambia. The 20+ participants have now returned to the respective towns and villages to train others to use the tools.