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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Global Commission on HIV and the Law

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The website Global Commission on HIV and the Law of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) disseminates the report "HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health", through work by a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on HIV and the law to help generate and build consensus around the evidence base, regional dialogues in 7 regions that ensured participation and inclusion of affected communities and law- and policy-makers, and a high-level commission intended to add insight and weight to findings and recommendations.

The objectives of the Commission were to:

  1. "Analyse existing evidence and generate new evidence on rights and law in the context of HIV and develop rights-based and evidence-informed recommendations.
  2. Increase awareness amongst key constituencies on issues of rights and law in the context of HIV and engage with civil society and strengthen their ability to campaign, advocate and lobby."


The outcomes of the Commission included:
  1. "Consolidated, coherent and compelling evidence base on human rights and legal issues relating to HIV.
  2. Greater awareness among key stakeholders and leadership of law- and policy-makers.
  3. Public dialogue and civil society engagement on social attitudes, human rights and legal issues relating to HIV."


The website includes:
  • Map of Implementation of the Commission's Recommendations
  • Toolkit: Scaling Up HIV-related Legal Services (Spanish language version)
  • From Despair to Hope: A UNDP Film
  • Follow-up stories including: "UNDP Brazil launching series of dialogues on HIV and the law"; "Police as agents of change - an innovative learning programme on HIV and human rights in the context of law enforcement in Thailand"; and "Mission by Senior UNDP Policy Advisors to Jamaica Yields Positive Engagement from Parliamentarians on Implementation of Recommendations of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law"
  • An Africa follow-up section
  • Regional dialogues including: 
    • Civil Society Participation
    • Submissions to the Regional Dialogues
    • Asia-Pacific
    • Caribbean
    • Eastern Europe and Central Asia
    • Latin America
    • Africa
    • Middle East and North Africa
    • High Income Countries
  • A Resource Center
  • A news section on media coverage and a newsletter archive.

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Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Source

Email from Vivek Divan to The Communication Initiative on March 4 2013.