Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
Billions of people around the world lack access to life‐saving medicines. While this is because of a number of synergistic causes, one critical factor is the prohibitively high cost of patent‐monopolized medications. Provisions currently being negotiated for the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
The undersigned non-governmental organizations appeal to the Special Procedures mandate-holders to take the following actions:Issue a joint public statement calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to openly condemn all killings based on sexual orientation...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Nordic model is a piece of legislation, passed in Sweden in 1999, which criminalizes the purchase of sex. In Canada, exchanging sex for money is not illegal, but virtually every activity associated with prostitution is. Following the Ontario Court of...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
"As civil society organisations concerned with access to medicines, to educational resources, to environmentally sound technologies, and to other public goods and cultural creations and further concerned with farmers’ rights, food security, human...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
Judging the epidemic has been prepared as a resource to help judges, magistrates, arbitrators and other judicial officers throughout the world adjudicate cases involving HIV-related issues. This handbook may also be used by judicial trainers and ministries of justice...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
"As a member in good standing of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and on behalf of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, one of the world’sleading organizations tackling HIV-related human rights issues, I write to you to express our deep concern at the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
In the Supreme Court of Canada (on Appeal from the Court of Appeal for Ontario) between:ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADAATTORNEY GENERAL OF ONTARIOAppellants (Respondents on Cross-Appeal)andTERRI JEAN BEDFORD, AMY LEBOVITCH AND VALERIE SCOTTRespondents (Appellants on...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
These submissions are informed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s and the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario’s (HALCO) extensive experience in working on the issue of the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada. We include concrete...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
Collective Statement: Street sex workers and our allies stand up for full decriminalization of our lives.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
This policy brief considers the impact of the Swedish model on sex workers and, in light of its harmful effects, argues that this approach would not withstand constitutional scrutiny in Canada.
