Mujeres Adelante
Building from AIDS 2010 in Vienna: Advancing women's rights in the response to HIV and AIDS
We invite you to join our conversation as we move from AIDS2008 in Mexico City through AIDS2010 in Vienna. Mujeres Adelante is a newsletter and a special joint edition series of the AIDS Legal Quarterly on women’s rights and HIV that grows out of a history of shared organizing around gender and human rights – and of mobilizing women – at International AIDS Conference since Barcelona in 2002. Mujeres Adelante was the name of a collaboration between global advocates and a local HIV positive women’s organization in Barcelona to build a parallel conference embedded in the Barcelona community that would be free and open to the public.
Mujeres Adelante, the newsletter and journal, is jointly produced by ATHENA and the AIDS Legal Network – and will be carrying forward the dialogue, discussion, and debates from Mexico City through the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2009 to the IAS HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention as we build toward AIDS2010 in Vienna.
We have three central goals for these newsletters and journals:
One is to make International AIDS Conferences and related
global forums accessible to community stakeholders and in so doing, to
create mechanisms by which research, advocacy, and community meet.
The second is to mobilize around a ‘gender agenda’ and in so doing, to place women’s rights and gender equality at the heart of the AIDS response.
And in so doing, our third goal is to create a platform whereby contentious, neglected, and emerging issues in the AIDS response can be identified, debated, and addressed.
Mujeres Adelante manifests the desire of diverse stakeholders in the AIDS response to create a shared voice and vision around gender equality and women’s rights; to bridge movements; to link sectors; and to create channels through which local and global meet as well as the passion of women from around the world to interpret, own, and advance a rights-based response to HIV and AIDS.
SVRI Newsletters
Mujeres Adelante issue 06 July 09
Mujeres Adelante issue 09 July 09
IAS Pathogenesis Conference
Mujeres Adelante issue 20 July 09
Mujeres Adelante issue 22 July 09
Special Joint Journal Editions with the AIDS Legal Quarterly
January 2010
March 2010
About ATHENA
ATHENA is a member of AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development) and WGNRR (Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights).