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30 March 2006
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This press conference was called after the TAC and the AIDS Law Project (ALP) learnt that they had been excluded from accreditation in order to attend the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS (UNGASS) because the South African government had objected to their participation. By objecting to TAC and ALP accreditation the South African government had acted unilaterally and intolerantly. They also conceded that some of the organisations that they had not objected too they had never even heard of. |
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TAC and ALP Press Conference on UNGASS - Parts 1 - 2
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Sipho Mthathi, Fatima Hassan and Zackie Achmat discuss the objection by the South African government to the participation of the Treatment Action Camapign and the AIDS Law Project in the United Nations' General Assembly Special Session on AIDS. The TAC and the ALP were two of six organisations that had been prevented from accreditation through the deliberate intervention of UN member states. Namibia and Belarus were the only other two countries that exercised objections. Hundreds of organisations from across the world had been accredited because their governments did not choose to exercise an objection.~30-03-2006
