Date: March 06, 2007 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Organization:	Women Won't Wait
Location:	Millennium Plaza Hotel, Dag Hammarskjold Room One United Nations Plaza (44th Street between First and Second Avenues) New York, New York
For More Information:	Peter Nasaw, Women Won't Wait, pnasaw@fenton.com, 212-584-5000 ext. 227 Erica Sackin, Women Won't Wait, esackin@fenton.com, 212-584-5000 ext. 335
New Coalition Cites Failure of International Agencies to Address Violence Against Women in HIV/AIDS Programs Report Evaluates U.S. President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Global Fund, UNAIDS, other international agencies WHEN: Tuesday, March 6, 10:30am to 12:00pm. WHAT: Launch of coalition and panel discussion of the report with coalition members-leading experts in women's health and human rights. The report finds that agencies continue to treat gender-based violence as an "add-on" rather than an integral aspect of their work on HIV and AIDS and fail to effectively promote women's rights. WHO: Speakers include: Mary Robinson, Realizing Rights: Ethical Globalization Initiative, former president of Ireland Susana T. Fried, author of report Isabella Matambanadzo, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa Lori Michau, Co-director, Raising Voices, Uganda Khuat Thu Hong, Co-Director, Institute for Social Development Studies, Vietnam Janaina Regina da Conceição, GESTOS-Soropositividade, Comunicação & Gênero, Brazil Moderator: Jodi Jacobson, Executive Director, Center for Health and Gender Equity WHERE: Millennium Plaza Hotel, Dag Hammarskjold Room One United Nations Plaza (44th Street between First and Second Avenues) New York, New York RSVP: pnasaw@fenton.com. Walk-ins welcome. If you cannot attend the briefing, please let us know if you would like to participate in an audio conference with the speakers on Wednesday morning, March 7. *** Women Won't Wait is an international coalition of organizations and networks working to promote women's health and human rights in the struggle to comprehensively address HIV and AIDS and end all forms of violence against women and girls. The coalition members are: Action Aid; African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET); Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID); Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL); Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE); Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM); GESTOS-Soropositividade, Comunicação & Gênero; International Community of Women Living with HIV&AIDS Southern Africa (ICW-Southern Africa); International Women's AIDS Caucus; International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC); Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network; Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA); Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; SANGRAM; United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM); VAMP; and Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA). ###