ICW Representation Statement
Request to all policy-makers, donors, international networking organisations and supporters to support ICW's principle of official representation
ICW REPRESENTATION AT YOUR MEETINGS
January 2004
To all policy-makers, donors, international networking organisations and supporters
Background
The International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) is the only global network run by and for HIV positive women. With nearly 4,000 members in over 90 countries spread across 6 continents, and with English, French and Spanish as our 3 main working languages, we are uniquely placed to represent the views of a large, active and growing network of HIV positive women and girls with a rich and diverse range of experiences of what it means to be HIV positive.
Our plans
ICW has recently set up a scheme of official representation, whereby each and every one of our members who attends a meeting as ICW's representative has signed an agreement with ICW, both to represent our members' diverse interests and to feed back to our membership their account of what took place at the meeting. In return for these responsibilities, ICW as an organisation is endeavouring to ensure that each of our official representatives is adequately briefed by our staff and other members, in advance of the meeting, about the issues which the meeting will address.
We are aiming to build up a large group of official representatives, all of them HIV positive, who come from 6 continents and who reflect our membership in their breadth of ages, languages spoken, backgrounds, experiences and professional areas of expertise.
In this way, we aim to develop a body of expertise within our membership and an institutional memory across our network, which should both enhance our contribution to inter-organisational debate and should also enhance our own understanding of the wider social, economic, political and legal issues which affect the lives of all of us living with HIV.
Our request to you
The principle of involving networks and organisations of people with disabilities, in the struggle to promote the rights of people with disabilities, and in relation to all issues concerning disability, was established over 20 years ago in the 1982 UN Declaration of the World Programme of Action. This point was repeated in the Section IV.1 of the
ICW REPRESENTATION AT YOUR MEETINGS
January 2004
To all policy-makers, donors, international networking organisations and supporters
Background
The International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) is the only global network run by and for HIV positive women. With nearly 4,000 members in over 90 countries spread across 6 continents, and with English, French and Spanish as our 3 main working languages, we are uniquely placed to represent the views of a large, active and growing network of HIV positive women and girls with a rich and diverse range of experiences of what it means to be HIV positive.
Our plans
ICW has recently set up a scheme of official representation, whereby each and every one of our members who attends a meeting as ICW's representative has signed an agreement with ICW, both to represent our members' diverse interests and to feed back to our membership their account of what took place at the meeting. In return for these responsibilities, ICW as an organisation is endeavouring to ensure that each of our official representatives is adequately briefed by our staff and other members, in advance of the meeting, about the issues which the meeting will address.
We are aiming to build up a large group of official representatives, all of them HIV positive, who come from 6 continents and who reflect our membership in their breadth of ages, languages spoken, backgrounds, experiences and professional areas of expertise.
In this way, we aim to develop a body of expertise within our membership and an institutional memory across our network, which should both enhance our contribution to inter-organisational debate and should also enhance our own understanding of the wider social, economic, political and legal issues which affect the lives of all of us living with HIV.
Our request to you
The principle of involving networks and organisations of people with disabilities, in the struggle to promote the rights of people with disabilities, and in relation to all issues concerning disability, was established over 20 years ago in the 1982 UN Declaration of the World Programme of Action. This point was repeated in the Section IV.1 of the