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Access to Justice and HIV/AIDS: Overcoming Legal Barriers for Vulnerable Women

This report highlights the challenges faced by transgender women, sex workers, and women living with HIV in accessing justice and protecting their rights. It emphasizes the need for training, sensitization programs, and literacy on legal services and human rights. Several cases of violence and discrimination are presented, underscoring the urgency of creating an enabling legal environment. This report was presented at the 29th UNAIDS PCB in Geneva on December 15th, 2011.

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Access to Justice and HIV/AIDS: Overcoming Legal Barriers for Vulnerable Women

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  1. ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND HIV/AIDS Gracia Violeta Ross graciavioleta@gmail.com ThematicSegment HIV and Enabling Legal Environment 29th UNAIDS PCB, Geneva, December 15th, 2011

  2. Transgenderwomen: “THE STATE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE MY IDENTITY, THEREFORE I DON’T EXIST AS A CITIZEN WITH RIGHTS. I WAS RAPED, TORNED ANALLY”

  3. SEX WORKERS:“ABORTION PRODUCED BY KICKING OF THE PIMP. I CAN’T GO TO THE POLICE, IT WILL BE A RAPE AFTER RAPE”’

  4. WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV:“THEY TAKE AWAY OUR DIGNITY, THEY TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHT TO BE MOTHERS”

  5. WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV:“SEXUAL ABUSE = HIVHIV IS LIKE A CRUEL PARTNER”

  6. ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR WOMEN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC? • Bolivia: 88% of thesewomen (n=322) askedtobetrainedontheirrights ONLY 2% OF THEM ASKED MONEY • Sex workers, women living with HIV, transgenderwomenallidentifiedpolice as themostviolentinstitutionagainstthem. • Women living with HIV in Chile presented a case in the Inter American Commission of HumanRightsforforcedsterilization. • Womenneedliteracyon legal services and humanrights. Weneedsensitizationprogramsforpolice and jugdes, butifwedaretospeak, are wegoingtogetjustice?

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