[Viva] Fwd: [iac activists] Housing Works Blog: A Conference For All? Travel Ban Threatens IAC 2012

[Margarite Sanchez]

At the IAC in Vienna there was opposition to the next IAC being held in
Washington DC. USA. Here is why.
fyi,
margarite

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*From: *"Turkewitz, Julie" <J.Turkewitz at housingworks.org>
*Date: *26 August 2010 5:48:28 PM
*To: *"iacactivists at googlegroups.com" <iacactivists at googlegroups.com>
*Subject: [iac activists] Housing Works Blog: A Conference For All? Travel
Ban Threatens IAC 2012*

Housing Works Blog: A Conference For All? Travel Ban Threatens IAC 2012

Excerpt: With the 2010 International AIDS Conference barely a month behind
us, controversy is already brewing over who will—and won’t—be able to attend
the conference when it hits Washington, D.C. in 2012.

At the closing of this year’s conference, President Obama delivered an
enthusiastic video message, welcoming “all” delegates to the capital in
2012. In reality, however, strict U.S. travel regulations ban two groups
heavily impacted by HIV—sex workers and drugs users. The restrictions, if
left unchanged, threaten the conference’s efficacy as a forum for all,
further disenfranchising two of the major populations it claims to serve.

Earlier this month, four human rights organizations sent a letter to Dr.
Elly Katabira, president of the International AIDS Society, requesting that
the conference be moved out of the U.S. Meanwhile, the Conference
Coordinating Committee the group charged with planning the event, has
created a working group that will meet in September to tackle visa policies.
While the committee has several options for approaching this issue, none
seem to ensure full participation while keeping the conference in the U.S.
capital.

Read the rest here:
http://www.housingworks.org/blogs/detail/travel-restrictions-international-aids-conference-2012/


Julie Turkewitz
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