Statements

Please Note: The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights is an advisory body independent from the UNAIDS Programme. Its views do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the UNAIDS Secretariat or UNAIDS Co-sponsors.

Statement on 56th Human Rights Council Resolution on HIV

The UNAIDS Reference Group welcomes the adoption of a groundbreaking Human Rights Council resolution on HIV at the 56th Council session. Statement from July 2024

RG response to SR VAW report

Reference Group response to the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women’s report on “Prostitution and violence against women and girls” presented at the 56th session of the Human Rights Council

Submission to the Special Rapporteur Report on Sex Work and Violence against Women and Girls

Reference Group statement in response to the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women’s call for inputs for a report on sex work and violence against women and girls.

Decriminalisation and the end of AIDS: keep the promise, follow the science, and fulfill human rights

The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights published a statement in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Journal calling for the need to focus on decriminalisation to end AIDS as a public health epidemic by 2030. June 23, 2023

The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights Strongly Condemns the Passage of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023

June 5, 2023

Rights, Readiness and Response: Written comments on the working draft of the WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness response and recovery

September 15, 2022

Ending Inequalities and Ending AIDS within a Human Rights Framework: The Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 and a human rights-based response to the pandemic

April 2021