{"id":7879,"date":"2014-12-05T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:25:29","slug":"video-putting-human-rights-into-human-hands-russia","status":"publish","type":"blog22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/video-putting-human-rights-into-human-hands-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Putting human rights into human hands in Russian-speaking countries"},"content":{"rendered":"Russia has the world\u2019s fastest-growing HIV epidemic, driven by injection-drug use, and fuelled by discrimination, criminalization and horrific human rights abuses. This video \u2014 produced by the Levi Strauss Foundation\u2019s HIV Advocates<\/a> program \u2014 lays out the work of the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries. Our goal, as Senior Policy Analyst Mikhail Golichenko explains, is to use litigation and advocacy to bring international human rights standards to the national level, but at the same time to put the power directly in the hands of individuals to defend their own rights. Through training and technical support from lawyers, we are equipping individuals to stand up and claim their rights in regional courts. As more people do so, officials are starting to realize that people living with or affected by HIV \u2014 particularly through injection drug use \u2014 cannot be ignored. Already we\u2019re seeing the discourse shift \u2014 but much more work needs to be done before laws and attitudes reflect not only an awareness of scientific evidence, but also, most importantly, an uncompromising vision of human rights for all.<\/p>\n