Comments on: No Excuses: A Living Experience of the Struggle for Rights

By: NSWP: Global Network of Sex Work Projects

NSWP: Global Network of Sex Work Projects — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:43:08 +0000

[...] A Living Experience of the Struggle for Rights,” was covered by Global Health Magazine, the International Women’s Health Coalition, and in a blog post by Meena on the AIDS 2010 official [...]

By: meena seshu

meena seshu — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:19:07 +0000

Actually The empowerment process cannot happen unless we invest in community building. The collective consciousness i am talking about actually sees that as the first step. Peer training is not enough. VAMP. MUSKAN and SANGRAM plus are collectives.

By: Love Bites: Clarisse Thorn | Time Out Chicago » » Sex workers and HIV in developing countries

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:53:56 +0000

[...] Sex workers and HIV in developing countriesJuly 24th, 2010 @ 7:53 am I always love reading about activists like Meena Seshu, who works with sex workers in India and was profiled on the excellent blog AKIMBO: [...]

By: Clarisse Thorn

Clarisse Thorn — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:42:55 +0000

I love reading about the sex worker movement in India and activists like Meena. The only thing that worries me is, well …. Here in Africa, if I’ve learned anything, it’s that the “empower the people themselves” discourse can go too far. This is not to say that communities don’t deserve empowerment, but frequently one sees programs in which a bunch of random youth, or random drug users, or random sex workers, have essentially been plucked up and sent to some workshops and then given a stipend to “educate their community” when there is really no community consciousness among them at all. I think there needs to be more emphasis on real, effective monitoring and evaluation before programs are done — real evaluation to bolster the “let’s empower” rhetoric — so that real, functioning communities are given the resources they need, rather than individuals having random training dumped on them by well-meaning outsiders. (Sort of like the “rescue problem”, huh?)

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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:15:22 +0000

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By: Three Reflections from the International AIDS Conference

Three Reflections from the International AIDS Conference — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:48:13 +0000

[...] SANGRAM’s Bill of Rights Meena Seshu, of IWHC’s partner organization SANGRAM and one of my gurus, delivered the Jonathan Mann Human Rights Lecture Thursday. Through a series of short videos, anecdotes, personal histories, and people’s stories and voices, Meena spoke truth to power. She made a call to action so that everyone in that room will think of SANGRAM’s Bill of Rights when designing and implementing HIV and AIDS programs. Check out a video of Meena and more from her speech and the SANGRAM Bill of Rights in our Akimbo post No Excuses: A Living Experience of the Struggle for Rights. [...]