Rwanda's Delegate of MUN

POSITION PAPER

Reza Adam

Representative of Rwanda

UNHRC Committee

Main Theme:  Changing Global Paradigm On HIV

To change the global paradigm on HIV, we reviewed the history of our country on HIV. The HIV epidemic began when Rwanda's tragedy of Genocida at 1994, caused by the conflicts between Hutu and Tutsi tribes. Rwanda has a population of very few residents, who were mostly positive contracted the HIV/AIDS virus. Stigma and discrimination are really harming the mental people affected by HIV/AIDS, people will always assume that those who contracted is very despicable and worse. This makes the termination for the society by the impact of stigma and discrimination on HIV/AIDS. We, as a country with the majority infected by HIV/AIDS, are very pro to change the global paradigm regarding the disabled, HIV AIDS, because the majority of our population positively infected by AIDS are extremely aggrieved thereby. Indirectly, the bad stigma and discrimination that inhibits the healing process of the people, they will not be compelled to perform a good action, they will always think that they will not be accepted in sosialitas, and finally they prefer to keep silent, and resigned as well as sincere with all that is.

HIV/AIDS in Rwanda began to spread precisely after the events of Genocida in 1994. From this conflict a lot happens everywhere, even rape is not indiscriminate.

 “We did not need to experience genocide to become a better people. It simply should never have happened. No country, in Africa or anywhere else, ever needs to become another Rwanda. But if a people’s choices are not informed by historical clarity, the danger is ever present.”

(Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda)

In our opinion, the proper resolution for the UNHRC to this is by holding:

1.      Campaign about humanity and human rights. That they respect each other, and there is no bad stigma and discrimination again.

2.      Campaign about the transmission of HIV/AIDS. To hang for those who do not know how the spread of this virus, or even that assumes that any contact can pass.

3.      As well as the implementation of both the campaign and the sequel in order to keep running continuously.