[Gcap-mujeres] URGENTE: DECLARACION EN TORNO A VIH/SIDA EN LA ONU

[REPEM Secretaría]

Queridas amigas,

Les estamos reenviando un mensaje que nos llegó a través de Bene Madunagu, 
Coordinadora General de DAWN, acerca del tema de la declaración de la ONU 
en torno a VIH/SIDA. Agradecemos difundirla entre sus organizaciones.

un abrazo,

Beatriz Simonetti

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NECESITAMOS TU ACCIÓN INMEDIATA PARA FORTALECER LA DECLARACIÓN DE LA ONU

Querid en s amig en s,

Vari en s coleg en s se encuentran trabajando día y noche, literalmente, en Nueva 
York para fortalecer el borrador de la declaración política que será puesta 
a consideración de las delegaciones de los gobiernos en la UNGASS en menos 
de dos semanas. El actual documento es bastante débil, y están solicitando 
nuestro apoyo para que nuestros gobiernos presionen y acuerden una 
declaración más fuerte. Los siguientes pasos son tomados de las 
comunicaciones enviadas por Shannon Kowalski, Kieran Daly, Zonny Woods y 
Prateek Suman.

QUÉ PUEDEN HACER: Ver la carta que se adjunta más abajo y que fuera enviada 
por varias organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Por favor USENLA Y ADAPTEN 
esta carta para enviarla a LAS DELEGACIONES Y MISIONES DEL GOBIERNO DE SUS 
PAÍSES, o escriban una carta similar. Esto se tiene que hacer ya.

Una vez que esté finalizada la Declaración de la Sociedad Civil, se las 
reenviaremos. Sería realmente muy útil si pudieran enviarla por e-mail y 
enviarla por fax a las capitales- por lo menos a ministerios de salud y 
consejos nacionales sobre SIDA- tanto como a sus misiones en Nueva York. 
También ayudaría las llamadas de seguimiento. Hagámosle saber que los 
estamos observando, y queremos y precisamos que esto tenga buenos 
resultados. HAY QUE ACTUAR YA, SI ESTÁ DENTRO DE SUS POSIBILIDADES.

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La que sigue es un modelo de carta (en inglés) enviada a los embajadores de 
las misiones permanentes de Thailandia y Barbados en Nueva York, con copia 
a Jan Eliasson, Presidente de la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas, y al 
Dr Peter Piot, Director Ejecutivo de UNAIDS.
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17 May 2006

H.E. Khunying Laxanachantorn Laohaphan
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Thailand
Permanent Mission of Thailand to the United Nations

H.E. Mr Christopher Fitzherbert Hackett
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados
Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations

Dear Ambassadors

We write to express our profound concern and alarm at the content and 
direction of the political declaration being prepared for the high 
level  meeting of the General Assembly (31 May to 2 June).
Accordingly, we are calling for urgent intervention to make a number of key 
changes to the draft declaration to ensure that a bold, meaningful and 
action-oriented declaration is put before the General Assembly.

Without this, progress gained in the global response will likely be set 
back and a vital opportunity missed to avert many more millions of HIV 
infections and AIDS related illnesses and deaths.

As the Secretary-General says in his Report on Declaration of Commitment on 
HIV/AIDS: 5 years later (A/60/736), the high level meeting is “a critical 
opportunity for world leaders to chart a way forward so that the goals and 
vision of the Declaration are achieved in their entirety and so that an 
exceptional response is sustained into the future. This leadership 
commitment is the key to ultimately putting an end to AIDS.”

We agree with the Secretary-General that the world is at a defining moment 
in its response to the AIDS crisis and that “to generate the exceptional 
response demanded by this most exceptional global crisis, all partners in 
the global AIDS response must embrace new ways of doing business and new 
ways of working together.”

We are dismayed that a number of the Secretary-General’s important findings 
about barriers to progress (in A/60/737) are not specifically referred to 
in the text, but only alluded to, often vaguely. A short, but clear 
assessment of the global response ­ its major failings and areas of 
progress - is an essential opening to the declaration text.

As it stands, the draft declaration does not provide a bold statement of 
leadership, nor does it propose a clear framework for future action, nor 
does it adequately chart new ways of working together to sustain progress 
toward the MDGs and 2005 World Summit goals - including the bold ambition 
to get as close as possible to Universal Access by 2010.

Instead, much of the current draft text is a selective recapitulation of 
the 2001 UNGASS Declaration’s commitments, resulting in an unnecessarily 
long and disorderly document. Once the 2001 Declaration is re-affirmed, 
then logically there is no need to then go on and selectively repeat 
paragraphs, statements and principles already made in the 2001 Declaration. 
In any case, many of these repetitions are not verbatim but are instead 
often obscurely worded and open ended ­ with the
unintentional effect of weakening the 2001 Declaration’s commitments.

The approach being taken so far does seem rather at odds with the 
objectives of the high level meeting called for by the General Assembly. We 
note the General Assembly’s resolution (A/60/224) called for consultations 
by UNAIDS and co-sponsors with Member States and other key stakeholders to 
identify common obstacles to scaling up prevention,
treatment and care. It also called for recommendations for addressing such 
obstacles, as well as accelerated and expanded action. The results of this 
important consultation process are contained in the Secretary-General’s 
Note “Scaling up prevention, treatment, care and support (A/60/736)”, which 
also makes sound, practical recommendations for actions and timelines. We 
are disappointed to find these recommendations are not fully included in 
the text, nor even referenced.
We urge this be reconsidered.

The inclusion of these recommendations and timelines would provide a major 
step towards transforming the text into the kind of blueprint for action 
which we believe is needed.
We also believe that recommendations already forwarded to you by the UNGASS 
Civil Society Coalition contain many practical measures which would greatly 
enhance the declaration. As you know, this document is endorsed by over 250 
civil society organisations across the world.

We note that a number of the text amendments proposed by Member States are 
consistent with the Civil Society Coalition document and with the goal of a 
forward looking, action oriented political declaration. We welcome this. 
However, some of these new proposals lack strategies for implementation and 
timelines for their completion. We urge further efforts to refine them.
As for the next steps, we believe that reworking the draft text into a 
shorter, practical and action-oriented declaration is achievable ­ through 
utilizing existing wording, reworking sections and with additions as 
needed. We would be pleased to assist with providing text to support your 
work and that of Member States ­ consistent with the partnership approach 
to HIV/AIDS as envisaged by the 2001 UNGASS Declaration.

As you may be aware, in 2001 the community sector was closely involved in 
the development of the UNGASS Declaration and we were generally very 
supportive of the text as it evolved. At the General Assembly, civil 
society welcomed the Declaration and promoted it enthusiastically.

As it stands, we do not see that many community based organisations and 
organisations of people living with HIV/AIDS, and indeed wider civil 
society, will be able to endorse this declaration or support its use at 
national, regional and community levels. Such a position would be very 
regrettable, but we simply could not support a weak declaration at this 
critical juncture in the global epidemic.

Indeed, without a change in direction, we fear that the high level meeting 
could be little more than a hugely expensive exercise which instead of 
fostering hope and action, will instead cause disappointment, resentment 
and serious loss of momentum.
While our comments are strongly worded, they are nonetheless meant to be 
constructive. We have no doubt of the good intentions of all those working 
on the text in New York and elsewhere. However good intentions are not 
sufficient to turn the tide of the epidemic. Leadership, clear directions 
and resolve are needed more than ever.

We very much look forward to your consideration of the points made in this 
letter and to your early response.

Yours sincerely,

Jo Watson, National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (Australia)
Alessandra Nilo, Gestos- Soropositividade, Comunicação e Gênero
Don Baxter ? ?Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO)
Kevin Moody, Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS
Marcel Van Soest, World AIDS Campaign
Masaki Inaba, AIDS Task Force, Africa Japan Forum, Japan
Micheal O’Connor, Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Omololu Falobi, African Civil Society Coalition on AIDS
Prateek Suman, Youth Coalition
Richard Burzynski, International Council of AIDS Service Organizations
Richard Elliott, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Shannon Kowalski, Family Care International
Sisonke Msimang, Africa Civil Society Coalition on AIDS
Susan Chong, Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations
Zonibel Woods, International Women’s Health Coalition

cc. H.E. Mr Jan Eliasson, President of the United Nations General
Assembly
Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS




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