Les femmes
In the following section you will find information on campaigning activity from women's groups at an international, regional and national level
Importance du leadership dans la perspective des femmes
Malgré les obstacles auxquels elles doivent faire face, les femmes sont les pionnières du changement. Elles sont les leaders des organisations de la société civile et des réseaux de personnes vivant avec le VIH, au niveau des communautés locales comme de la politique internationale. Les femmes se font entendre et exigent des leaders de tous niveaux qu'ils tiennent les promesses faites - pour cette génération et pour l'avenir.
Parmi les promesses dont les femmes exigent le respect :
- Réaliser l'accès universel à des services complets de santé sexuelle et reproductive d'ici 2010, pour juguler l'avance du VIH, la mortalité maternelle et la morbidité et en éliminer le fardeau disproportionné sur la vie et la santé des femmes, de même que les autres effets négatifs des rapports sexuels non protégés.
- Renforcer les réponses des secteurs sanitaires et juridiques à la violence sexiste, à l'opprobre et à la discrimination et faire de l'abolition de toutes les formes de violence à l'encontre des femmes et des filles un élément central de toutes les stratégies bilatérales et multilatérales en ce qui concerne, notamment, les programmes de lutte contre le VIH.
- Appuyer l'accès universel de toutes les femmes et de tous les jeunes à une éducation complète à la sexualité.
- Assurer un accès équitable aux ressources de production et assurer les droits de propriété et d'héritage des femmes.
Women Won't Wait Campaign Press Release, June 6, 2008
WOMEN ARE STILL WAITING FOR GOVERNMENTS TO REDUCE WOMEN’S AND GIRLS’ RISK TO VIOLENCE AND HIV&AIDS!
International coalition urges governments and donors to keep their promises to women and girls
NEW YORK, 6 JUNE 2008 - Government officials and AIDS activists from around the world will convene at the United Nations in New York from 10-12 June to review the global HIV/AIDS response. At the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001, governments committed to promote and protect women’s human rights and reduce women’s vulnerability to HIV&AIDS by eliminating all forms of discrimination including violence against women.
Press Release-Women Won't Wait Campaign
March 4, 2008
(New York) — On its one year anniversary, the Women Won’t Wait. End HIV and Violence against Women. NOW!
Campaign remains concerned that women’s rights still occupy the margins of HIV&AIDS strategies and funding. The campaign was launched on International Women’s Day—March 8, 2007—to demand that policy makers and donors integrate responses to violence against women in global and national AIDS programmes and allocate resources to these responses.
ACT to End HIV and Violence against Women
Within the toolkit below, you will find key information and advocacy tools to help end HIV and violence against women. Key information includes why AIDS policies must consider policies pertaining to violence against women, backgrounds on the UNGASS 2008 Review and International AIDS Conference in Mexico. Advocacy tools include key actions women and health groups can take to help the cause, a list of recommendations from the Women Won’t Wait Campaign and other resources.
Africa Public Health Rights Alliance Issues Maternal Death Scorecard At Start of Women Deliver International Conference on Investing in Women¹s Health.
Relentless Increase in African Maternal Death Could Be Equated To Genocide By Inaction Says Africa Public Health Rights Alliance ³15% Now² Campaign.
Book: “If I Kept it to Myself”. Young women working to make a difference in a world with AIDS.
In this book you will read about young women from all over the world, who have shaken their communities as peer counselors and educators, as care givers and as people living openly with HIV or AIDS; giving hope to many and promoting a humanistic response to the pandemic.
Women vow to lead change in response to AIDS
Vowing that “we can lead the change we wish to see in the world”, participants at the World YWCA’s International Women’s Summit on HIV and AIDS concluded their meeting with a call to action demanding individual and collective responsibility.
International Women's Summit 4-11 July 2007, Nairobi
Women's Leadership Making a Difference on HIV and AIDS.
The International Women's Summit offers a unique opportunity to listen to some of the world's leading experts on HIV and AIDS and learn from the experiences of women working in the heart of local communities. It's a chance to lead change in addressing the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls.
Women Won't Wait Coalition Launched
“Women Won't Wait”, a new international coalition of women's groups, launched its campaign to end HIV and violence against women with a new report released: "Show Us the Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV&AIDS Donor Agenda?"
European Sisters speak out!
The rights of women to decide freely about their sexual lives and the number and spacing of their children are often violated in name of culture and religion. Growing conservatism across the globe and in Europe threatens these rights even further.
1,200 delegates turn out for the Women's conference on HIV/AIDS in Cameroon
The women in the military took the lead in a march in Limbe, Cameroon on World AIDS Day 2006
The Government of Cameroon, National and International NGOs, Diplomatic missions, UN systems and over 500 rural women all made a mark during the conference. Civil society set ambitious targets and set time frames to realize them. Over 3000 persons joined the conference participants to commemorate the world AIDS day in a two hours march round town in Limbe.