Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“On behalf of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization, we would like to thank you for making an important statement on World AIDS Day denouncing the over-criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada.”
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“We, the undersigned, represent many different communities and interests. But today we speak with one voice, firmly committed to health and human rights, in support of desperately needed prison-based needle and syringe programs (PNSPs) in Canada. The time for PNSPs is...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“In the past year, the federal government has taken some important steps in promoting the health and human rights of people living with and affected by HIV. […] But so much more is needed.” Read our letter to Canada’s Members of Parliament and Senators ahead of World...
Organization:
Realize (previously CWGHR)
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding the existing UN drug treaties and evolving law and practice in Member States continue to grow. How might governments and...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In Canada, people seeking permanent resident status or temporary residence as students or workers can be rejected on the basis of their HIV status due to the “excessive demand” provision of Canada’s laws governing medical inadmissibility. Relying on...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In February 2016, the National UNGASS Working Group (supported by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network) delivered a brief to Canada’s federal government, outlining 10 priority recommendations to inform the ongoing negotiations at the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Legal Network submits this briefing to the World Health Organization’s High-Level Working Group of Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents in order to provide inputs on the following areas of concern: (i) the rights of women living with HIV;...
Organization:
CATIE
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report