Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“Globally, prisons disproportionately incarcerate people from marginalized communities, who, in turn, are disproportionately affected by conditions such as drug dependence, HIV, and hepatitis C virus. … Section 5(3)(a)(i)(D) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network welcomes this opportunity to provide submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the subject of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).” In the brief The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trading Away...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
A two-page document briefly describing the current legal landscape of the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada, why the current use of the criminal law is problematic, and what the Legal Network and its partners have been doing to resist the overly broad...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“On behalf of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization, we would like to thank you for making an important statement on World AIDS Day denouncing the over-criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada.”
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In Canada, people seeking permanent resident status or temporary residence as students or workers can be rejected on the basis of their HIV status due to the “excessive demand” provision of Canada’s laws governing medical inadmissibility. Relying on...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Legal Network submits this briefing to the World Health Organization’s High-Level Working Group of Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents in order to provide inputs on the following areas of concern: (i) the rights of women living with HIV;...
Organization:
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
Published December 2016
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network submits this briefing to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in advance of its review of the periodic report of Canada, held during its 65th session from 24 October to 18 November...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network welcomes this opportunity to provide our perspectives on the government’s priorities for establishing an international assistance policy and funding framework. When International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau took up her...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) in April 2016 is a significant opportunity for Canada, in collaboration with other Member States, specialized UN agencies and civil society organizations, to: engage in an open and honest...
