NZAF Patron and former Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby has also been made a Commissioner.
The NZAF says it is delighted the new UN organisation has been established to tackle legal and policy challenges surrounding HIV.
Executive Director Rachael Le Mesurier says the political clout and international prominence of the UN will push these issues to the forefront of the global agenda.
“And we’re incredibly proud that people from, and close to, the NZAF have been selected to take part.”
Le Mesurier says from its earliest days, the NZAF was very clear that human rights legislation was a priority if NZ was to have an effective response to HIV. She says it advocated strongly for human rights legislation related to HIV including the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986, the Human Rights Amendment in 1993 and the Prostitution Law Reform Act in 2003.
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