Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2014
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"We welcome your public statements as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs condemning the adoption of anti‐LGBTQ laws in Russia, Nigeria and Uganda…. However, such statements are not enough…. We therefore call upon the Government of Canada to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2014
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PDF
"On behalf of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and our more than 100 members, I write to express our deep dismay at recent reports that you are planning to sign into law the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009 that was passed by Parliament in December of last...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
The undersigned non-governmental organizations appeal to the Special Procedures mandate-holders to take the following actions:Issue a joint public statement calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to openly condemn all killings based on sexual orientation...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
Collective Statement: Street sex workers and our allies stand up for full decriminalization of our lives.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
In 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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
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PDF
This 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.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
"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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
"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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
Billions of people around the world lack access to life‐saving medicines. While this is because of a number of synergistic causes, one critical factor is the prohibitively high cost of patent‐monopolized medications. Provisions currently being negotiated for the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
"As civil society organisations concerned with access to medicines, to educational resources, to environmentally sound technologies, and to other public goods and cultural creations and further concerned with farmers’ rights, food security, human...
