The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities recently released its fall issue of Human Rights magazine. Entitled Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Tied Together," this issue analyzes domestic and international human rights issues surrounding the AIDS pandemic. The issue also includes a brief history on the ABAs work on HIV/AIDS legal issues and promotes the ABAs official policy urging the U.S. Government to use international human rights law and science-based treatment in connection with developing legislation, policies, programs, and international agreements relating to HIV/AIDS pandemic. Articles within the issue address the challenges regarding HIV/AIDS faced by minority communities, the workplace and in a number of countries such as Russia, India, China, Africa.
The issue is available online at: http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/fall04/home.html.
Compiled from: ABA Human Rights Listserv, ABA-SIL Human Rights Committee e-brief, 15 November 2004.