Sexuality issues have gained considerable discursive space in the last two decades in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However this debate has largely framed men, both homosexual and heterosexual, as the primary sexual actors, whether as agents in sexual relationships or as transmitters of sexual diseases.

How can we measure progress on government commitments to positive change for HIV positive women? Fed up with being approached by researchers but never seeing the results, HIV positive women in Lesotho and Swaziland devised a tool that they themselves could use with other HIV positive women to monitor access to care, treatment and support (ACTS); sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); and violence against women (VAW).

"This report was elaborated by the Maghreb regional office of Global Rights in Rabat, in collaboration with 15 local NGOs and lawyer partners in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Following a start-up workshop organized by Global Rights in September 2007, the NGO partners trained their members as facilitators and organized a series of community consultations with groups of women in their communities to solicit their views on the marriage contract.

This report provides an analysis of patterns of human rights abuses against women who are exposed to the risk of or are already living with HIV in rural contexts of widespread poverty and unemployment.

Novemer 28, 2008
By: Sussan Tahmasebi

On the 16th of February 2007, it was reported that a man in Sistan and Baluchestan province, suspecting his fourteen year old daughter of sexual relations, had taken it upon himself to stone her to death. He carried out this harsh and unusually cruel punishment with the help of his friend. In this way, the father had hoped to win back his disgraced honor, and the honor of his family.