By Brook Kelly In January 2012, Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD) and 16 other organizations led by Lambda Legal filed with the Supreme Court a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This week, the Supreme Court held a three day hearing on the constitutionality of health care reform. As we hold our breath to see how …
Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: An Opportunity to Support our Sisters!
Human Rights Campaign March 9, 2012 This guest post is from Kathie Hiers, Chief Executive Officer of AIDS Alabama and member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS I was recently watching an old Saturday Night Live from 1977 in which the news anchors ofWeekend Update, Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd, were heatedly debating the issue of women’s reproductive health rights. I …
Why Does the President’s Budget Cut Critical Services for Women with HIV and AIDS?
by Alison Yager, HIV Law Project March 10, 2012 – 6:09pm President Obama’s proposed budget, released last month, was reasonably true to his Administration’s commitment to working toward an AIDS-free generation. But one key disappointment was his proposed cut of 10 percent to the Ryan White Part D budget. This is the only part of the program that serves the unique …
“Prostitution Pledge” is Forced Speech: A Promising Win in the Fight for Rights-based U.S. Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2011 — HIV advocates are greeting with enthusiasm the latest development in the fight to ensure that U.S. foreign aid reaches those most affected by the epidemic. A United States appellate court yesterday upheld a lower court’s injunction against the enforcement of the so-called prostitution pledge, which refers to the requirement that organizations receiving funds to fight the …
UN Elects Executive Board of New UN Women
10 November 2010 – UN Member States today took the next step in enabling the newly-created United Nations agency on gender equality and women’s empowerment to begin its work by electing countries to serve on its Executive Board. The 41 board members were selected on the following basis: 10 from Africa, 10 from Asia, 4 from Eastern Europe, 6 from …
Get-Out-The-Vote: November 2, 2010 Elections
November 2nd, 2010 is Election Day! Almost one-quarter of Americans eligible to vote are not registered. Unregistered Americans tend to be low income, people of color, young people, recent U.S. citizens, formerly incarcerated individuals, and those who have recently moved to a new address. In addition, communities with low voting rates – including people of color and low-income communities – …