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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Towards a New NAFTA: Safeguarding Public Health and Access to Medicines: Submission to Global Affairs Canada
Publication date: 2017“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network welcomes this opportunity to provide submissions to Global Affairs Canada on the scope of the renegotiation and modernization of the existing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Given the potential impact, domestically...
Concerns from the Health Community Regarding Proposed Next Steps in the TPP11
Publication date: 2017Canada continues to engage in discussions about reviving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), even though the US has now withdrawn. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network has joined with other civil society organizations to release an open letter to the...
Protecting the Human Rights of People Living with or at Risk of HIV in the Criminal Law: Submission to the Department of Justice
Publication date: 2018“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (“Legal Network”) welcomes this opportunity to provide submissions to the Department of Justice on how the Canadian criminal law should be transformed.“In this submission, the Legal Network sets out its...
Rethinking Justice: 7TH Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights
Publication date: 2017Since 2009, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network has organized a number of symposia on HIV, Law and Human Rights. The issue of criminalization of HIV non-disclosure has been and remains an ongoing issue of concern to people living with HIV, community organizations,...
Submission to Court of Appeal of Jamaica in M. Tomlinson V. Television Jamaica LTD. and CVM Television LTD.
Publication date: 2017An appeal against the judgement of the Full Court of Jamaica delivered on November 12, 2013, in which the learned Justices dismissed the Appellant Maurice Tomlinson’s claim for constitutional redress brought against the 1st and 2nd Respondents, Television Jamaica Ltd....
See an overdose? Call 911 immediately
Publication date: 2017With Canada’s fatal overdose crisis still surging, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, issued 50,000 wallet-size cards with vital information about the 2017 Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act. The...
Good Samaritans VS. Bureaucrats: Which Side Are You On?
Publication date: 2017Why “pop-up” overdose prevention sites are a legally justifiable and morally necessary response to the opioid overdose crisis and government inaction.
Submission to the House of Common’s Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration in Relation to its Study of Federal Government Policies and Guidelines Regarding Medical Inadmissability of Immigrants
Publication date: 2017The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (“IRPA”) stipulates that foreign nationals are inadmissible to Canada on health grounds if their health condition might reasonably be expected to cause an “excessive demand” on health or social services, or if they have an...
Brief to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women: The Need for Drug Policy Reform and Comprehensive Prison-Based Harm Reduction
Publication date: 2018The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network, CATIE and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network work to promote the human rights of people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), including Indigenous women...
Open Letter To Victoria Atkins, MP
Publication date: 2018The Legal Network, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and International Centre for Science in Drug Policy issued a joint letter to Ms. Victoria Atkins, MP, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the UK Home Office, regarding comments made during a Parliamentary debate about...