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AIDS 2012, Washington DC
The HIV Justice Network: what is it and how to participate and use it
Edwin J BernardCo-ordinator, HIV Justice Network, UK/Germany
Support the Oslo Declaration: hivjustice.net/oslo
AIDS 2012, Washington DC
• What is the HIV Justice Network?– Beginnings– Milestones
• What do we do? – Connect– MEDIATE (Monitor, Educate, Inform, AdvocaTE)– Examples
• What you can do• Goals and outcomes
Support the Oslo Declaration: hivjustice.net/oslo
OVERVIEW
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• Began in 2007 as a blog criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
• Soon became an important global resource and a de-facto advocacy hub, highlighting individual cases and judicial decisions from around the
world existing, proposed and new HIV-specific criminal laws media reports and public opinion of such laws and
prosecutions and – increasingly – case studies of anti-criminalisation
advocacy.• Filling the gap
SUPPORT THE OSLO DECLARATION: HIVJUSTICE.NET/OSLO
BEGINNINGS: CRIMINAL HIV TRANSMISSION
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• June 2010: Facebook group – HIV Action (Anti-CriminalisaTIOn Network)
• July 2010: Criminalisation of HIV Exposure and Transmission: Global Extent, Impact and The Way Forward, AIDS 2010, Vienna.– First global advocacy meeting with Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network,
GNP+ and NAM• 2011: Consultancy and global (north) reach
– Consultant, UNAIDS HIV criminalisation project– Advisory Group, Global Commission High Income Country Dialogue– Global networking, including speaking at meetings in Australia,
Canada, US and throughout Europe.– POZ 100!
• 2012: Sustain, develop, expand– Funding now allows for (almost) full-time co-ordinator, part-time social
media editor– New name, website and email newsletter coming soon– Facebook group reactivated, Daily Twitter news @hivjusticenet– New projects: ‘Oslo Declaration’, Doing HIV Justice
SUPPORT THE OSLO DECLARATION: HIVJUSTICE.NET/OSLO
HIV JUSTICE NETWORK: MILESTONES
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• Connect• Individuals (PLHIV, activists, lawyers, researchers) + organisations (PLHIV
networks, HIV NGOs, advocacy NGOs, UNAIDS/UNDP)• Monitor
• New and proposed laws, law enforcement (arrests, prosecutions, outcomes), access to justice, media reporting, research, policy, advocacy
• Educate• Who, what, where, why and how?• Best (and worst) practice examples
• Inform• Work with GNP+, IPPF, NAM, POZ to provide news, data and analysis• Work with advocates and criminal justice system• Facilitate research • Media (and social media) outreach, newsletter
• AdvocaTE• Facilitate in-country advocacy• Oslo Declaration on HIV Criminalisation• AIDS 2012, DAH/EATG/IPPF Seminar Berlin September 2012, and beyond.
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WHAT WE DO: CONNECT + MEDIATE
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GLOBAL MONITORINGProsecutions under general lawsHIV-specific laws, prosecutionsHIV-specific laws, no prosecutionsNo reported laws or prosecutions
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OSLO DECLARATION ON HIV CRIMINALISATION
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DOING HIV JUSTICE
WATCH ONLINE AT: HIVJUSTICE.NET
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• Connect• Find individuals and organisations in your country/region and link them to us• Sign up to the newsletter at hivjustice.net, follow us on Twitter @hivjusticenet
• Monitor• Scan media (print, online, Twitter, Facebook) for information on new and proposed
laws, law enforcement (arrests, prosecutions, outcomes), access to justice, good or bad media reporting, research, policy, advocacy and tell us about them
• Educate• Explain to others why HIV criminalisation is ineffective, counterproductive and unjust• Develop and provide juristiction-specific legal literacy as well as HIV risk, harm, proof
literacy for policymakers and criminal justice system.• Inform
• Use your own networks and media (print, online, Twitter, Facebook) to highlight good and bad practice
• Advocate• Use our info and tools and others’ (GNP+, NAT/THT, SERO, PJP, UNAIDS, Global
Commission Report• Advocate for law reform/modernisation and/or prosecutorial guidelines.• Be strongly principled but manage expectations: be pragmatic!
SUPPORT THE OSLO DECLARATION: HIVJUSTICE.NET/OSLO
WHAT YOU CAN DO: CONNECT + MEDIATE
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TOGETHER WE CAN ACHIEVE…• Improved and better co-ordinated monitoring and evaluation of
laws, law enforcement, and access to justice.• Improved understanding of the 'who, what, where, why and how'
of criminalisation in order to advocate for change.• Improved understanding of the impact of laws, arrest and
prosecutions, in order to help develop tools for education, empowerment, and challenge.
• Improved and co-ordinated understanding and collaboration between national, regional and global advocates, providing case studies and analysis of successes (and failures) in anti-criminalisation advocacy.
• Greater opportunity for targeted discussion of key issues, identification of best model practices, and development of strategies to better inform domestic legal systems.
SUPPORT THE OSLO DECLARATION: HIVJUSTICE.NET/OSLO
GOALS AND OUTCOMES