Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“In keeping with the government’s stated commitment to harm reduction and to evidence-based policy, the Legal Network recommends two amendments to strengthen Bill C-37, with a view to ensuring the legislative framework for securing exemptions from the Controlled Drugs...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Canada 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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“On behalf of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, I am writing to you because we are deeply concerned about Ontario’s approach to prosecuting allegations of HIV non-disclosure. We request that you immediately undertake the following actions to put an end to unjust...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The 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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report synthesizes resources that jointly consider Indigenous women, HIV and gender-based violence and relevant recommendations for law reform.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Needs assessment
In 2014, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (“Legal Network”) and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) began collaborating to produce a series of legal information resources for Indigenous communities living with and affected by HIV and/or hepatitis C (HCV)....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
An 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....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“We write to you in advance of Canada’s meeting with senior trade officials from TPP countries on May 2–3 in Toronto to map out the future of the agreement in light of the United States’ withdrawal. This meeting presents a critical opportunity for Canada to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“In keeping with the government’s stated commitment to harm reduction and to evidence-based policy, the Legal Network recommends two amendments to strengthen Bill C-37, with a view to ensuring the legislative framework for securing exemptions from the Controlled Drugs...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Since 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,...
