Grover is a leading figure in efforts to use law to advance the rights of those living with, or vulnerable to, HIV/AIDS in India. As the director and co-founder of the Lawyers Collective, he has handled hundreds of HIV-oriented cases in India on issues ranging from discrimination to access to medicines. He recently argued Naz Foundation Trust v. Government of NCT, Delhi and Others, in which the Delhi High Court struck down the criminal prohibitions relating to sodomy in the Indian Penal Code.
In August 2008, Grover was appointed by the Human Rights Council as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health for a period of three years. The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health reports on and makes recommendations to promote and protect the right to health internationally to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly.
This event is sponsored by the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.
A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.
Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.
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