Responding to the absence of women’s rights in the UNGASS Review Process, women’s groups demand that governments urgently commit to targets and resources to take responsibility to comprehensively protect and promote women’s rights in halting the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Women’s rights issues are central to the goal of halting this pandemic–such as the right to health and the right to live free of sexual coercion and violence, universal access to sexual and reproductive health services and education, and protection of sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls.
