Documents

Handbook on HIV and Human Rights for National Human Rights Institutions (published jointly with UNAIDS) [Spanish version]

Report of the Secretary General on the protection of human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS

Note on HIV/AIDS and the Protection of Refugees, IDPs and Other Persons of Concern

10 Key Points on HIV/AIDS and the Protection of Refugees, IDPs and Other Persons of Concern

The International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights

HIV/AIDS: Stand Up for Human Rights (cartoon booklet, published jointly with UNAIDS and WHO)
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Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More Than Ever

General Assembly

•  UNGASS Declaration of Commitment

•  Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS

Security Council

•  Resolution 1308 (2000): HIV/AIDS and peacekeeping - S/RES/1308 (2000)

•  Resolution 1460 (2003): Children in armed conflict - S/RES/1460 (2003)

Treaty bodies

General Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

•  General Comment no. 3 (2003) - HIV/AIDS and the Rights of the Child - CRC/GC/2003/3

•  General Comment no. 4 (2003) - Adolescent Health - CRC/GC/2003/4  

Human Rights Council/Commission on Human Rights

Reports

•  Report of the Secretary-General on the protection of human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS, A/HRC/4/110

•  Report of the Secretary-General on access to medication in the context of pandemics such
as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, E/CN.4/2006/39

•  Report of the Secretary-General on access to medication in the context of pandemics, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, E/CN.4/2005/38

• Report of the Secretary-General on the steps taken to promote and implement the guidelines on HIV/AIDS, E/CN.4/2005/79

• Access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS:, E/CN.4/2004/39, E/CN.4/2003/48

•  The protection of human rights in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS ), E/CN.4/2003/81

Resolutions and Decisions

•  Access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, A/HRC/DEC/2/101

•  Access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria E/CN.4/RES/2005/23, E/CN.4/RES/2004/26, E/CN.4/RES/2003/29

•  The protection of human rights in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) E/CN.4/RES/2005/84, E/CN.4/RES/2003/47, E/CN.4/RES/2001/51

•  The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health E/CN.4/RES/2004/27

•  Rights of the child E/CN.4/RES/2004/48

Special Procedures

•  Situation of human rights in Haiti : report of the independent expert (IV.F. Cooperation and efforts to combat HIV/AIDS) E/CN.4/2004/108

•  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health E/CN.4/2004/49

•  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression (III.B. Access to information for the purposes of education on, and prevention of, HIV) E/CN.4/2003/67

•  Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography: Mission to South Africa E/CN.4/2003/79/Add.1

Commission on the Status of Women

•  Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) Resolution 47/1 (2003)

ILO

• Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

RESOURCES