ATHENA: Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights in the Global Response to HIVAIDS

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ATHENA Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights
in the Global Response to HIV/AIDS
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Women_at_Durban, 2000UNGASS Human Rights Group,
2001Women_at_Barcelona/Mujeres Adelante,
2002Women_at_ Bangkok, 2004ATHENA created,
2005Womens Networking Zone, 2006
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Bridging Overlapping Communities
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ATHENAs Approach

• Convening Role / Promoting Global-Local Exchange
• Accountability, Advocacy and Policy Reform /
  Addressing Neglected and Contentious Issues
• Leadership Development / Bringing Forward New
  Leaders and Amplifying Independent Voices
• Seeding Change / Capacity Building and Skills
  Exchange

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Principios básicos de nuestros trabajo

• Colaboración con organizaciones e iniciativas
  locales.
• Colaboración con grupos de mujeres VIH positivas.
• Promoción de los derechos humanos.
• Vínculo de las comunidades que trabajan en
  género, derechos humanos, salud sexual y
  reproductiva y VIH.

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• Abordaje de temas relegados o conflictivos sobre
  derechos humanos.
• Vínculo de lo global con lo local.
• Vínculo de la investigación, la política, la
  defensoría y la práctica.
• Desarrollo y apoyo de la capacidad de liderazgo
  de mujeres y niñas, en especial las que viven con
  VIH.
• Capacitación de individuos y organizaciones como
  agentes de cambio.

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Range of member organizations

• International Community of Women Living with
  HIV/AIDS, Global
• Thai Women and HIV/AIDS Task Force, Thailand
• The Living Together Project, South Africa
• Mamas Club, Uganda
• SAATHII, India
• FEIM, Argentina
• World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, Malaysia
• Ipas, Global
• Ibis-Reproductive Health, USA and South Africa
• Human Rights Watch, USA
• Center for Reproductive Rights, USA
• Blueprint Coalition, Canada
• The Well Project, USA

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Visibility, networking and strategizing
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Global priority setting and policy shaping
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Advancing local priorities
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Global local linkages
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Creating platforms and tools for action and
articulating rights
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Building alliances
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Advancing womens leadership
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Current Initiatives

• Mujeres Adelante Building from Toronto to Mexico
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• International Womens Summit, Women and HIV/AIDS
  Leadership Summit in Nairobi, July 2007
• Building Alliances to Address Gender-Based
  Violence and HIV
• Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of
  Women Living with HIV/AIDS A Pilot Project to
  Address Coerced Sterilization and Abortion
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• Hot Topics Focus on HIV Testing Scale-Up

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Steering Committee de ATHENA

• Louise Binder, Blueprint Coalition, Canada
• Tyler Crone, Coordinating Director, ATHENA
• Maria de Bruyn, Ipas, USA
• Jodi Jacobson, Center for Health and Gender
  Equity, USA
• Monruedee Laphimon, Thai Women and HIV/AIDS Task
  Force, ATHENA Co-Chair
• Shari Margolese, Voices of Positive Women, Canada
• Lydia Mungherera, Mamas Club/TASO, Uganda
• Ida Susser, Hunter College and Columbia
  University, USA
• MariJo Vazquez, ICW, ATHENA Co-Chair

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Standing with GiantsTo all of the women
and girls leading the way in HIV/AIDS____________
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