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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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...
Respect, Protect, Fulfill: A Human Rights Response to HIV
Publication date: 2018The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s strategic plan, Respect, Protect, Fulfill: A Human Rights Response to HIV sets out the goals for the organization over the next five years.
Comments on Canada’s Draft Third Report Under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
Publication date: 2018In this brief, the Legal Network provides information about Canada’s implementation of its international human rights obligations as raised in the draft report, organized under subheadings included in the draft report. It expands on issues presented in the Legal...
Appointment of the next Comissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada
Publication date: 2018In February 2018, the Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada retired. The Legal Network sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale, and Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick to...
Time to act on harm reduction promises: Open Letter to the Liberal Party of Canada
Publication date: 2018Drug policy is at a critical juncture in Canada, and we need our elected representatives to put even greater emphasis on public health objectives and outcomes, respecting human rights for all. Welcome steps have been taken on this front following the 2015 election,...
The Missing Millions: Stopping and reversing the steady erosion of federal HIV Funding
Publication date: 2018In recent years, the Government of Canada has renewed a commitment to ongoing dialogue and constructive engagement with civil society in the response to HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs). In response to...
The Missing Millions, The Government of Canada and HIV
Publication date: 2018As community organizations are closing, the federal government presides over the continued steady erosion of federal HIV funding, with $104 million in funds lost from the response.
Women and HIV – “Women and the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure”
Publication date: 2017This is one in a series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada. Please note: this info sheet updates the original, which was published in May 2012.