Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
This submission focusses on various aspects of Canada’s obligation to realize progressively the right to the highest attainable standard of health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Article 12), and specifically the right...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This document presents evidence and recommendations in support of implementing prison-based needle and syringe programs in Canada.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
Video
Meet Sheryl, a mother of two who was infected with hepatitis C from sharing drug injection equipment. She describes the trauma of prison. Part of a series on prison health.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report is focused on the implementation of recommendations given to the Government of the Russian Federation by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding access to HIV prevention, drug treatment and overdose prevention among people...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
Video
Resource Type:
Presentation
The Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice, established in 2009, is a grassroots organization in Moscow, Russia, with the mission of promoting and developing humane drug policy based on tolerance, protection of health, dignity and human rights. The...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Letter to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) On behalf of the community of international civil society organizations working in the area of human rights and drug policy, we would like to draw your attention to the importance of the issue of torture and other...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
BETWEEN:STEVEN SIMONS, CANADIAN HIV/AIDS LEGAL NETWORK, PRISONERS WITH HIV/AIDS SUPPORT ACTION NETWORK, CANADIAN ABORIGINAL AIDS NETWORK and CATIE (Applicants)– and –MINISTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY, CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA, COMMISSIONER OF THE...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This briefing paper provides a short summary of the background, history and objectives of drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and analyses available evidence regarding their impact. The second part of the briefing paper consists of an overview of the various DCRs in...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The purpose of this report is to critically examine drug treatment courts (DTCs) in Canada using the available evidence, which includes process and outcome evaluations of existing DTCs, grey literature and academic research. Our assessment is also informed by...
Organization:
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Program evaluation, Report
Describes the distribution of safer crack use kits (SCUKs) and the impact of their distribution in the Winnipeg Health Region.NOTE that more recent monitoring indicators can be found in the 2015 Street Connections evaluation report (accessible through...