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APA
2015-2016
Report
In 2015, Unzip the Lips members participated in the Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental
Meeting on HIV and AIDS. Unzip the Lips, in cooperation with United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and the IATT on HIV and Gender, organized a high-level side-event
“Keeping the Focus on Key Affected Women and Girls” on 30 January. The session was
an interactive dialogue between community network advocates with intergovernmental
delegates, to highlight violations of human rights in health care settings, and gender-
based violence among other issues.
Participants of the Unzip the Lips Strategy Meeting.
In 2016, Unzip the Lips organized an Advocacy Workshop and Strategic Meeting from
21-24 March in Bangkok. Workshop participants prioritized key entry-points for key
affected women and girls KAWG in Agenda 2030 and the new Sustainable Development
Goals, and developed targeted messages. The video “Nothing for Us, Without Us”
featuring Unzip Members was produced as an outcome of the meeting, as an advocacy
tool on engaging with the SDGs. Watch the video here.
At the Strategic Meeting, results from a comprehensive review of the Unzip the Lips
platform were shared, including good practices and challenges of UNZIP governance
structure, operational design and decision making processes.
During the two year period of 2015-2016, a series of thematic briefs on HIV and SRHR
of key affected women and girls “Unzipping the Policies for Key Affected Women and
Girls”, “Unzipping CEDAW”, “Unzipping UPR”, and Unzipping the SDGs” were developed
and released.
Unzip also launched a newsletter to share updates on the activities of members, and share
advocacy tools and resources. Three newsletters were circulated in the reporting period.
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