Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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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: 2011
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PDF
DOSSIERAnalyse des lois et politiques sur la prévention, le traitement et les soins en matière de VIH, pour les personnes qui font usage de drogue et les personnes incarcérées en Asie centrale et en AzerbaïdjanDÉVELOPPEMENTS AU CANADAVers la mise en place de sites...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Increasingly more people who use drugs are locked away in the name of drug rehabilitation without any real access to medical care or legal recourse. Drug users rarely enter such detention centers voluntarily, and even if they do, they nearly never are allowed to leave...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
WLSA–Malawi is challenging Malawi’s approach to marital property law before the Constitutional Court of Malawi because it discriminates against women. They are fighting for an approach to marital property that would give a husband and wife equal control...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This document will inform you about:when there is a legal duty to disclose HIV-positive status;the current evidence regarding the impact of ARV treatment and viral load on the risk of HIV transmission;the current state of the law regarding viral load and HIV...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
HRC Resolution 16/3, “Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind” stresses that “traditions shall not be invoked to justify harmful practices violating universal human rights...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Shadow Report to the UN Committee against Torture in relation to the review of the Fifth Periodic Report of the Russian Federation.This report considers facts, reasons for and conditions for mistreatment of drug users in Russia.Authors: Andrey Rylkov Foundation,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This document will inform you about:when there is a legal duty to disclose HIV-positive status;the current evidence about the risk of HIV transmission with and without condoms;the current state of the law about condom use and HIV disclosure; andwhy people who use...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The objective of this paper is to examine the human rights content and impact of the Global Fund’s work in three areas — grant-making processes, grants, and advocacy, especially to see how this unique institution manages the balancing act to which its...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
"We urge the Russian government to abolish the criminal ban on methadone, to support rather than repress harm reduction programs and workers, and to reform its drug laws so as to place health concerns, not further pointless and harsh criminalization and...
