Promoting equality around the globe

The annual event is supported by the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations and aims to promote equality before the law and in practice throughout the world.

This year’s theme is ‘to protect everyone’s health, protect everyone’s rights,’ highlighting the importance and need to protect people’s health, and rights, and to put an end to AIDS.

Organisations like UNAIDS that combat discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS is a particularly big promoter of the event. UNAIDS also highlights the urgency in tackling inequalities around income, sex, age, health status, occupation, disability, sexual orientation, drug use, gender identity, race, class, ethnicity and religion that continue to persist worldwide.

“HIV related stigma and discrimination is pervasive and exists in almost every part of the world,” according to Dr Ivan Camanor, Chairman of the National AIDS Commission of Liberia. He adds that his country has a particularly poor record in this regard.

Indian Campaigners have used the day to speak out against laws discriminating against the LGBTI community, especially during an earlier campaign to repeal the law that used to criminalise homosexuality. The law was overturned by the Indian Supreme Court in 2018.

As Amnesty International states, ‘Discrimination strikes at the very heart of being human. It is harming someone’s rights simply because of who they are or what they believe. Discrimination is harmful and perpetuates inequality’.

Further details at: https://www.unaids.org/en/2024-zero-discrimination-day

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