This three-volume manual is targeted specifically at grassroots organizations working at the intersection of human rights and HIV/AIDS, including groups run by and for people living with HIV/AIDS, ethnic minorities, sex workers and drug users. The three modules are Know It: The Rights Framework (to learn how to conduct goal-oriented human rights analyses and international human rights law), Prove It: Basics of Rights Documentation (to learn about how to plan and conduct human rights documentation), and Change It: Ending Rights Abuses (to learn about how to structure and execute a successful advocacy campaign). Each module includes both the core curriculum, so that activists can train themselves, and a teacher's supplement for use in group workshops. All materials will be published in English, Thai and Chinese.

The project is being developed collaboratively by Asia Catalyst, Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group and Korekata AIDS Law Center. The curriculum is designed through an intensely consultative process in which Chinese and Thai grassroots AIDS, harm reduction and ethnic minority organizations offer input into and guide the development of the final product to meet their needs.

To download the Human Rights Mission Kit, click here.

And if you're at the International AIDS Conference, please come to our workshop, "Basics in Human Rights Documentation", on Tuesday July 20, 2:30-6 pm in Mini Room 1, or stop by our booth #649 in the Global Village.