The HIV Legal Network (www.hivlegalnetwork.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research and analysis, advocacy and litigation, public education and community mobilization. The Legal Network is Canada’s leading advocacy organization working on the legal and human rights issues raised by HIV/AIDS.
RESOURCES
Joint Oral Statement to the UN Human Rights Council, 20th Session re: the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Publication date: 2012"[We] draw your attention to recent laws that threaten the right to freedom of expression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals and others. … What can be done to ensure that national laws that limit the right to freedom of expression...
Collective Statement: Street sex workers and our allies stand up for full decriminalization of our lives
Publication date: 2013Collective Statement: Street sex workers and our allies stand up for full decriminalization of our lives.
Letter to the Special Committee of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada re: TWU’s discriminatory law school
Publication date: 2013"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...
Appeal to UN Special Procedures re: Recent surge in homophobic and transphobic violence worldwide
Publication date: 2013The 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...
Speak out against hate, stand up for human rights: An open letter from Canadian organizations regarding homophobia in Russia and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics
Publication date: 2013Speak out against hate, stand up for human rights: An open letter from Canadian organizations regarding homophobia in Russia and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics
Letter to President of the Republic of Uganda H.E. Kaguta Yoweri Museveni re: Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Publication date: 2014"On behalf of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and our more than 100 members, I write to express our deep dismay at recent reports that you are planning to sign into law the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009 that was passed by Parliament in December of last...
Joint statement to UN Special Rapporteurs re: Intersex issues
Publication date: 2014This joint statement to the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, was delivered on behalf of several intersex NGOs from around the world at...
Open Letter to the Government of Canada re. LGBTQ Issues
Publication date: 2014"We welcome your public statements as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs condemning the adoption of anti‐LGBTQ laws in Russia, Nigeria and Uganda…. However, such statements are not enough…. We therefore call upon the Government of Canada to...
Submission to the Global Commission on HIV and the Law re: Canada
Publication date: 2011Laws and practices that criminalize people living with HIV and vulnerable to HIVPeople who use drugsPeople in prisonSex workersCriminalization of HIV non-disclosure2. Laws and practices that facilitate or impede HIV-related treatment access Canada’s Access...
Open letter from civil society to Executive Director of the Global Fund: Abandon the “blue-ribbon Task Force to develop a global framework on tiered-pricing”
Publication date: 2014"We, the undersigned organizations and activists from the global South and North, are writing to urge the Global Fund to abandon its attempt to launch a “blue-ribbon Task Force” that will focus primarily on developing a global multi-tiered pricing...