Sec Gen Calls for Lifting Travel Restrictions on People with HIV
Mark Leon Goldberg - June 11, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Speaking at the beginning of a major UN summit on HIV/AIDS, Secretary General Ban Ki Moon challenged national immigration laws that place travel and visa restrictions on people with HIV. He did not mince his words:
"I call for a change in laws that uphold stigma and discrimination, including restrictions on travel for people living with HIV... [60 years after the Universal Declaration on Human Rights] it is shocking that there should still be discrimination against those at high risk, such as men who have sex with men, or stigma attached to individuals living with HIV."
Twelve countries -- Armenia, Colombia, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sudan, the United States and Yemen -- bar entry to people with HIV. For more on how this affects people wishing to visit the United States--and in some cases become American--read this important op-ed from Andrew Sullivan. I, for one, am glad that Ban added his voice to this critical, yet often overlooked, issue of basic human rights.
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Tim Pektor @ Mar 2nd 2010 10:33AM
Since HIV positive people are already stigmatized I think we could all show some understanding and not make it any harder on them. I'm glad the travel ban for HIV positive people was lifted, it was about time. Tim Pektor carnival cruise ships
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