Uproar Over Govt Aids Ban: "Several Namibian non-governmental organisations working in the field of HIV-AIDS have been shut out of this year's UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS because Government objected to their participation.
NGOs are being excluded despite Government signing a 2001 declaration of commitment on the disease.
The UNGASS declaration, as it is known, stresses the importance of human rights in the context of HIV and the need for partnerships with civil society in an effective response to the disease.
The objection to the NGOs' accreditation to the UNGASS review meeting also flies in the face of Government's commitment to human rights.
As a result of the objection, organisations like Nanaso, the AIDS Law Unit, the Walvis Bay Multi-Purpose Centre and the AIDS and the Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), which is based in Windhoek but represents 14 organisations from the SADC region, probably won't be represented at the meeting expected to take place in New York at the end of May 2006."
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