Which UN institutions/bodies are dealing specifically with HIV/AIDS related human rights abuses?
The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights is mandated to deal with human rights of all, including the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS. Further, UN human rights bodies such as the UN Commission of Human Rights, the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, are increasingly dealing with HIV/AIDS related human rights abuses. Non-governmental organisations can contact and input the work of these bodies in various ways (cf. “Getting involved in international advocacy” – p.16) 5 ยท Can individual cases of alleged HIV/AIDS-based human rights violations be taken to an international court? There is a regional court functioning at the moment which hear individual cases from member countries of the Council of Europe: the European Court of Human Rights. They can hear cases of alleged breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
