Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“Canada is a party to the three main UN drug control conventions, which aim to control illicit drugs by reducing supply and demand, in particular through requiring States Parties to adopt varying degrees of prohibitions and sanctions on a range of designated...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
This Discussion Guide was created for people who want to use the film Consent: HIV non-disclosure and sexual assault law to engage colleagues, clients, students and communities on the use of sexual assault law to criminalize HIV non-disclosure in Canada. It is meant...
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:
Booklet
This handbook was written by a team of legal experts and reviewed by community activists working for improving the human rights situation of people with HIV and key populations most at risk of HIV. It is intended for people with HIV, people who are at higher risk of...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“As civil society organizations concerned about access to medicines, in your three countries and globally, we write to you in advance of your North American Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa on June 29. The summit is an important opportunity to demonstrate human rights...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In April 2014, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network hosted a ground-breaking workshop, Rethinking HIV Non-Disclosure and Sexual Assault: A Feminist Dialogue. Approximately 30 socio-legal scholars, criminologists, lawyers, anti-violence advocates, researchers, graduate...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Legal Network’s guiding values are rooted in a focus on the human rights of marginalized populations such as sex workers and their meaningful participation in policies and programs that affect them. We make this submission to UN Women to urge the agency to (1)...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“Globally, prisons disproportionately incarcerate people from marginalized communities, who, in turn, are disproportionately affected by conditions such as drug dependence, HIV, and hepatitis C virus. … Section 5(3)(a)(i)(D) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network welcomes this opportunity to provide submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the subject of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).” In the brief The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trading Away...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
A two-page document briefly describing the current legal landscape of the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada, why the current use of the criminal law is problematic, and what the Legal Network and its partners have been doing to resist the overly broad...
