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A goal of the Coalition is to encourage municipal authorities and local governments to develop or strengthen strategies and policies to combat HIV and AIDS stigma and discrimination.

Violence against women in the family, sexual harassment at work and in educational and training institutions, and stigmatization of and hostility towards unmarried single women and women living on their own are areas of concern.

Special efforts should be made to tackle discrimination on the basis of any status of the child or parents, including poverty, ethnicity, religion, sex, mental and physical disability, HIV/AIDS or other serious illnesses, whether physical or mental, birth out of wedlock, and socio-economic stigma, and all other statuses and circumstances that can give rise to relinquishment, abandonment and/or removal of a child.

[...] [...] economic and cultural factors that fuel HIV infection such as stigma, gender inequality, [...] [...]

[...] [...] and related stigma and discrimination [...]

[...] [...] policy barriers, stigma, discrimination [...]

People living with HIV/AIDS experience considerable barriers in finding and keeping a job, even before the disease renders them incapacitated because of stigma and discrimination.

The National Multisectoral HIV and AIDS Strategic Framework 2000-2011 of Mauritius aims to reduce the transmission of HIV among vulnerable groups (injecting drug users, prisoners and sex workers) by developing, funding and strengthening national mechanisms to fight stigma and discrimination, ensuring full access to HIV prevention, information, voluntary counselling and testing, education and care, and treatment.

In this connection, they are deeply alarmed at the rising trends of discriminatory national laws and policies adopted and exercised against any religion, stigmatizing groups of people on the basis of religions under variety of pretexts relating to security and illegal immigration, particularly people from certain ethnicities and religious minorities following the events of 11 September 2001.

The main areas of action include empowering people with pertinent information on prevention, providing support and care at the household level through home-based care programmes, promoting adherence to antiretroviral therapy and tuberculosis treatment, implementing harm reduction programmes for injecting drug users, reducing stigma and discrimination, providing psychosocial support to children orphaned by AIDS, and advocating for and promoting the human rights for people infected with and affected by HIV.

[...] [...] and measures to counter stigma.

In the report submitted in accordance with resolution 63/171 (A/64/209), the Secretary-General noted that treaty bodies and special procedures had reported about serious instances of intolerance, discrimination and acts of violence based on religion or belief, such as the derogatory stereotyping and stigmatization of persons based on their religion or belief, and the negative projection and targeting of certain religions and religious symbols.

Special attention should be paid to voluntariness, the provision of free or affordable services and to the problems of stigmatization.

(e) The inadequacy of services provided to children with disabilities, and the continued widespread limitations on the availability of inclusive education for children with disabilities, which results in such children frequently being precluded from attending school, hinders progress in social attitudes towards persons with disabilities and exacerbates the stigmatization that they frequently face.

[...] [...] order to eliminate stigma, discrimination [...] [...]

(e) Take steps to ensure that parents are not pressured into making donations to schools and that children are not stigmatized if their parents do not, or are unable to, make such donations

It made clear that it was necessary, from them onwards, furthermore, to avoid stigmas of the past, - source of much debate in those days and thereafter, - such as the use of certain terms (like “tutelage”, or even “guardianship” itself), and the attempted classification of degrees of civilization (as in the list of mandates A, B and C).

Addressing such challenges as stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and those most at risk, homophobia, and gender inequality and sexual violence, and empowering women and girls are not only moral imperatives but also essential to ending the AIDS epidemic.

[...] [...] services; lack of access to affordable commodities and low-cost technologies; and suffering from stigma, discrimination [...]

Commit to national HIV and AIDS strategies that promote and protect human rights, including programmes aimed at eliminating stigma and discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV, including their families, including by sensitizing the police and judges, training health-care workers in non-discrimination, confidentiality and informed consent, supporting national human rights learning campaigns, legal literacy and legal services, as well as monitoring the impact of the legal environment on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support

By utilizing the rapidly growing network of the Coalitions of Cities against Discrimination and by targeting especially youth, UNESCO addresses the HIV/AIDS-related stigma, which often is compounded by other forms of discrimination.

Working in private households, often far from their own homes and with little or no protection or social support, they are exposed to excessive working hours, hazardous tasks, social stigma and discrimination, physical and emotional violence, as well as sexual abuse.

[...] [...] they knew that their name would be tarnished in history.

The action plan on HIV/AIDS and STIs includes: prevention measures with a special focus on women which includes promotion of the female condom, awareness raising, addressing violence against women and sexual abuse; prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT); HIV prevention for young people aged 15-25 years by incorporating sex education in school curricula, organizing mass media awareness-raising campaigns and by monitoring behavioural change; and addressing stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV through measures including the planned enactment of a specific law on HIV.

For all the above reasons, it can be concluded that a universal pension scheme is most in keeping with human rights obligations as: (a) it responds to the claim of universality of human rights norms; (b) it complies with the principle of equality and nondiscrimination; (c) it reduces opportunities for corruption and manipulation in the selection of beneficiaries which typically excludes the poorest; and (d) reduces possible stigmatization as it is available to all who comply with the age requirement.

Individuals face the constant threat of being arrested, held in pretrial detention, subjected to expensive criminal trials, fines and imprisonment, as well as the social stigma associated with having a criminal record.

When promoting interreligious dialogue projects, they should not monopolize the communication, and should strive to be inclusive and respect the principle of voluntary participation, while refraining from negatively branding communities choosing not to participate in a dialogue.

Most women interviewed by the Panel in the 22 documented cases stated that they had not reported the attacks on them to the national police and/or the UNAMID police for fear of social stigma and stereotyping within their communities.

Our basic principle in this is the need to protect those affected and to slow the spread of the disease, without discrimination or stigmatization, with a universal criterion and with quality, solidarity, equality and cultural sensitivity.