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Action Alerts Call on Peruvian Authorities for Justice in Murder of HIV/AIDS and Gay Activist End Funding for The Failed Title V Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Program and Support Comprehensive Sex Education	Advocacy Issues Reference Pages Ebrahim Hamidi (Iran) Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga (Malawi)

Advocacy Toolkits and Useful Resources Top 10 in 2011: Key Global Policy Developments Concerning MSM & HIV World AIDS Day: HIV Laws And Policies, New Online Tool ILGA-Europe Training toolkit for training police officers on tackling LGBTI-phobic crime Fundraising Toolkit: A Resource for HIV-Related Community-Based Projects Serving Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Individuals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Lesbians' health: myths and realities Supporting community-based responses to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Persons in Forced Displacement Anova releases sex education manual for HIV positive pre-teens Prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among MSM and transgender people Recommendations for a public health approach 2011 More..	International Agreements and Signatories The Universal Declaration of Human Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Status of Ratification, Reservations and Declarations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Status of Ratification, Reservations and Declarations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Status of Ratification, Reservations and Declarations European Convention on Human Rights Chart of Signatures and Ratifications List of declarations, reservations and other communications American Convention on Human Rights Signatories and Ratifications African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Signatories and Ratifications

Key Reference Documents The Denver Principles (1993) The Paris Declaration on the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS (1994) Millenium Development Goal #6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (2000) United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (2001) United Nations Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2006) Yogyakarta Principles (2007) Joint Action for Results, UNAIDS Outcome Framework (2009-2011)	Advocacy in Action Grounds for discrimination ITPC launches new Strategic Direction 2012 - 2014 Transgender and Intersex Groups Form Pan-African Alliance Opinion: The bearable whiteness of being gay Gay man from San Diego faces deportation to homophobic Nigeria More..

The Global Forum on MSM & HIV: Working worldwide against HIV for the health and human rights of men who have sex with men.

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The Global Forum on MSM & HIV: Working worldwide
against HIV for the health and human rights
of men who have sex with men.