Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
"There are many human rights challenges that must be tackled in order to respond effectively to the ongoing, twinned pandemics of HIV and of HIV-related human rights abuses … we wish to highlight one phenomenon of growing global concern and...
Organization:
Positive Women’s Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Program evaluation, Report
Since 2006 Positive Women’s Network has provided HIV education workshops for health and social services providers in BC. We contracted Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation to assess how well these workshops were delivered, what kinds of outcomes...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Communication to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Independent Expert in the Field of Cultural Rights regarding violation by the Government of the Russian Federation of the right to enjoy the benefits of...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
"These appeals raise the question of whether the offence of aggravated sexual assault can and should be established for HIV non-disclosure in circumstances where, in the Interveners’ submission, there is no 'significant risk' of transmission because...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Letter to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) On behalf of the community of international civil society organizations working in the area of human rights and drug policy, we would like to draw your attention to the importance of the issue of torture and other...
Organization:
UBC/BCCDC
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report provides a brief overview of a study conducted by a research teamaffiliated with the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Centrefor Disease Control and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The aimof the study was to explore why...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Brief presented in February 2012 to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, in relation to the Committee’s study on Bill C-10, An Act to enact the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and to amend the State Immunity Act, the Criminal...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Update: the Supreme Court of Canada's February 2012 hearing of two appeals about when people living with HIV may be convicted of a crime for not disclosing their HIV status to sexual partners.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This briefing paper provides a short summary of the background, history and objectives of drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and analyses available evidence regarding their impact. The second part of the briefing paper consists of an overview of the various DCRs in...
