Civil society must be ...

Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.
 Shereen El Feki

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The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.
 Shereen El Feki
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?
 Shereen El Feki
HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.
 Shereen El Feki
The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.
 Shereen El Feki