This 90 minute webinar introduced attendees to some of the concepts and practices highlighted in the Making Media Work for HIV Justice media toolkit, and featured formidable activists, journalists, communications professionals, and human rights defenders working at the intersection of media and HIV criminalisation.
HIV IS NOT A CRIME Training Academy (HINAC2)
Huntsville, Alabama
(33 min, HJN, USA, 2016)
HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE presents a video documentary on the second-ever ‘HIV IS NOT A CRIME’ training academy held in Huntsville, Alabama.
To support advocates on how to effectively strategise on ending HIV criminalisation, this 30-minute video distils the content of this unique, three-day training academy into four overarching themes: survivors, victories, intersectionality and community.
We hope this video can be used as a starting point to help advocates move forward in their own state or country plans to achieve HIV justice.
For more information about the training academy visit: http://www.hivisnotacrime.com/
Alone But Together
Women and Criminalisation of HIV
(15 min, Zimbabwe Lawyers For Human Rights, Zimbabwe, 2014)
This video explains why overly broad HIV criminalisation harms women, and highlights the issue with an interview with a woman who is fighting her conviction for allegedly infecting her husband.
Ruins: Chronicle of an HIV Witch-hunt
(53 min, Zoe Mavroudi, Greece, 2013)
Director Zoe Mavroudi’s powerful exposition of how HIV stigma was cynically used to scapegoat society’s most vulnerable. The film explores what happened in the run-up to the country’s 2012 national elections when a group of HIV-positive women were detained by the Greek police, forcibly tested, charged with a felony, imprisoned and publicly exposed, when their mug shots and personal data were published in the media.
More information at: http://ruins-documentary.com/en/
To support the women in their legal fight for justice please visit: http://ruins-documentary.com/en/donate/
Positive Women: Exposing Injustice
(45 min, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Canada, 2012)
Positive Women: Exposing Injustice is a 45-minute documentary film that tells the personal stories of four women living with HIV in Canada — a Quebecker who was charged for not telling her partner that she had HIV at the beginning of an ultimately abusive relationship, a young woman who chose not to pursue charges against the man who infected her, an Aboriginal woman who has personally faced extreme stigma and threats, and a Latina woman who describes the challenges of disclosure and intimate relationships for women living with HIV. Their stories are real, raw and from the heart, and tell the truth about what it’s like to live in a society that all-too-often criminalizes intimate behaviour between consenting adults and discriminates against those living with HIV. Legal experts, doctors, counsellors and support workers also lend their voices to challenge current Canadian laws that are letting down the very women they are meant to protect.
Produced and Directed by Alison Duke
Directors of Cinematography: Kim Derko and Robin Bain
Camera: Sean Black and Richard Chong
Composer and Sound Mixing: Derek Brin
Editor: Eugene Weis
Co-producers: Janet Butler-Mcphee, Cécile Kazatchkine and Alison Symington
Executive Producer: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Mark S King: HIV Criminalization Face-Off
(7 min, My Fabulous Disease, USA, 2012)
What if you could witness a face-to-face confrontation between a man living with HIV and the sex partner accusing him of not revealing his status? Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on that wall? The fireworks could be mighty, as emotions raged between the furious accuser and the positive person trying to defend his actions. What might that meeting look like, exactly?
In this video, you’re about to find out.
Read more at Mark’s brilliant blog, My Fabulous Disease.
Voices from the Field:
How Laws and Policies Affect HIV Responses
(5 mins, István Gábor Takács, 2011)
Delivered at the 29th meeting in December 2011, UNAIDS PCB NGO Delegation’s 2011 Report focuses on the importance of the legal environment to national HIV responses. For its findings, the NGO Delegation conducted a series of 27 focus groups, involving more than 240 participants from every region of the world.
This video, produced by István Gábor Takács of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, highlights the report’s key findings and recommendations to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) board and its Member States with regards to HIV strategies and related laws and policies.
HIV is Not a Crime
(8 min, Zero, USA, 2012)
This short film is part of Sero’s ongoing documentation of the experiences of people with HIV who have been prosecuted for “HIV crimes”. To see a growing collection of individual interviews please visit Sero’s video page.