By Mbabazi Busigye | Ms
In the absence of a comprehensive human rights response in Rwanda there are enormous violations of the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and a lack of awareness and understanding of human rights issues amongst HIV positive people.
It is against this background that we organized a two day workshop with HIV positive people to build their capacity on fighting stigma and discrimination in Kamonyi District.
The workshops were aimed at building the capacity of HIV positive people to respond to human rights violations.
The participants were trained in human rights documentation and also involved Human Rights Training Module and Information Kit for key representatives of people living with HIV/AIDS examining what human rights means in the context of AIDS, how to build it into their response, and strategies for networking for an HIV/AIDS human rights campaign.
LESSONS LEARNED: HIV positive people are best placed to monitor the abuses of the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, providing they are strongly linked to local non government organisations. It is possible to create effective, appropriate, user friendly advocacy tools which can be used to feedback human rights violations to NGOs and international human rights bodies.
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