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.
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Letter to Canadian Minister of International Trade re: Trans‐Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement and safeguarding access to medicines
Publication date: 2013"We, the undersigned civil society organizations, write to you in order to express our deep concern with some of the provisions proposed for the intellectual property, pharmaceutical pricing and investment chapters of the Trans‐Pacific Partnership...
Open letter to Prime Minister from NGOs: Canada must stand fast in Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations to defend access to affordable medicines
Publication date: 2013"We are Canadian civil society organizations committed to the basic principle that access to medicines and to health care should be equitable, based on need and not on ability to pay, whether at home or around the world. Medicines should not be a luxury. We call...
Privacy and disclosure: questions and answers on HIV-related privacy and disclosure issues for women’s service providers
Publication date: 2012This document addresses some common HIV-related legal questions of agencies that provide services to women in Canada. The information will help service providers inform and refer the women with whom they work to appropriate legal information and support when...
Know Your Rights 4: Disclosure and post-secondary education
Publication date: 2013Number 4 in a series of brochures that address the privacy rights and disclosure obligations of people living with HIV in a variety of day-to-day contexts as well as post-secopndary education.
Know Your Rights 3: Remedies for discrimination and privacy violations in the workplace
Publication date: 2013Number 3 in a series of brochures that address the privacy rights and disclosure obligations of people living with HIV in a variety of day-to-day contexts.
Know Your Rights 2: Accommodation in the workplace
Publication date: 2013Number 2 in a series of brochures that address the privacy rights and disclosure obligations of people living with HIV in a work context..
Know Your Rights 1: Disclosure at work
Publication date: 2013Number 1 in a series of brochures that address the privacy rights and disclosure obligations of people living with HIV in a variety of day-to-day contexts.
Canada’s immigration policy as it affects people living with HIV: Questions and Answers
Publication date: 2013Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act became law on 28 June 2002. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulationsalso came into effect on that date. This Q&A document provides some general information on how the Act and the...
Sex Work Law Reform in Canada: Considering problems with the Nordic model (Briefing Paper)
Publication date: 2013This 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.
Canada v Bedford (Supreme Court of Canada) — Factum of the interveners HIV Coalition
Publication date: 2013In 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...