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
Indigenous Women, HIV and Gender-Based Violence
Publication date: 2017This report synthesizes resources that jointly consider Indigenous women, HIV and gender-based violence and relevant recommendations for law reform.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination Through the Protection of Privacy and Confidentiality
Publication date: 2017This resource explains the important role of privacy and confidentiality in reducing stigma and discrimination related to STBBIs, and offers frontline health and social service providers several strategies they can use to deal with issues related to privacy,...
Harm Reduction in Canada: What Governments Need to do Now
Publication date: 2017Canada is in urgent need of comprehensive harm reduction policy that jettisons the failed, costly model of drug prohibition that has ravaged so many lives, from fueling the spread of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV), to contributing to over-incarceration, to creating...
Brief to the Standing Committee on Social Policy Regarding Bill 96, The Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2017
Publication date: 2017We urge the Standing Committee on Social Policy to uphold the human rights of sex workers by rejecting Bill 96, the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2017, as it does not help end trafficking but endangers the safety and security of vulnerable people, particularly migrant...
Submission to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on Medical Inadmissability
Publication date: 2017“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. “We recommend that the...
Letter to provinces and territories Re: Healthy drug policy: Bill C-37 and beyond
Publication date: 2017“We, the undersigned, write to you respecting the recent passage into law of Bill C-37, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related amendments to other Acts. As you well know, the intent of this law is to facilitate the scaling up of...
Words. Action. Impact. Annual Report 2016–2017
Publication date: 2017Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2016, to March 31, 2017.
Brief to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights Rergarding its Study on Human Rights of Prisoners in the Correctional System
Publication date: 2017The public health and human rights rationale for prison-based needle and syringe programs Programs that ensure access to sterile injecting equipment are an important component of a comprehensive approach to reducing the vulnerability of prisoners to HIV and HCV...
Review of Canada’s Compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
Publication date: 2017“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network submits this briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in advance of its review of the periodic report of Canada, held during its 93rd session from July 31 to August 25, 2017. “The Legal Network has...
Mandatory Minimum Incarceration for Drug Offences: Bad Public Policy: Submission to the Department of Justice
Publication date: 2017“There is no evidence that mandatory prison time for people convicted of drug offences reduces the problems associated with drug use, or drug use itself. “At the same time, there is a growing body of evidence that mandatory minimum sentences wreak terrible damage on...