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• Enabling Sex Workers to Realise their Human Rights through
strategizing for access to adequate health care, including
HIV/AIDS prevention interventions, CAFRA, Regional (2004)
The goal of the project is to assist sex workers in realising
their human rights by enabling them to gain access to adequate
health care, health education, and preventative programmes
around HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Specific objectives include: building CAFRA’s knowledge
of the situation and laws affecting sex workers towards designing
an advocacy campaign for the access of health care without
discrimination; working with of sex workers’ organisations,
where possible, on activities and strategies for a health
care and HIV/AIDS prevention programme; changing the attitude
of public health officials towards sex workers; and building
public awareness of sex work as a labour activity to which
both national labour legislation and ILO standards should
apply.
• Documenting
Sexual Abuse & Violence Against
Women & Girls in the Race/Ethnic/Political Conflict,
Red Thread & Help & Shelter,
Guyana (2004)
Objectives: to ensure that there is a public record that
provides a full picture of the extent and nature of sexual
abuse and violence against girls and women in the race/ethnic/political
conflict in Guyana; to force the issue onto the national
agenda; to empower the victims to see themselves without
shame and to find their own ways to demand justice; to begin
to change attitudes in their communities so that the girls
and women are seen as victims and not as having brought shame
on their families; to challenge and begin to change the attitudes
of women who accept and even encourage sexual abuse and violence
against girls and women of the other race; to work towards
achieving improved implementation of the Domestic Violence
Act while reviewing its adequacy and campaigning for changes
if necessary; to lay the groundwork for building a network
of women from all ethnic communities, supported by men, who
will consistently organize in defence of girls and women
who are victims of sexual violence in race/ethnic conflict
in Guyana.
• Promoting
and supporting initiatives to end violence against
women, Centre de Recherche & d’Action
pour le Développement
(CRAD), Haiti (2004)
The overall aim of the project is to strengthen the resource
capability of women and women’s organisations to enable
them to combat violence against women (VAW). Specific objectives
include: formation of local women’s groups capable
of diagnosing, analysing, and understanding the phenomenon
of VAW and of lending assistance to victims of violence;
support to women’s organisations to assist them in
defining, creating, implementing and reviewing a plan to
combat VAW; promotion of women’s right to a violence-free
life.
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