On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released important decisions in two cases of HIV non-disclosure; namely, R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C. Mabior is a man who had sex with several women...
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Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011.
Please note that the sections of this document that describe the current state of the criminal law as it relates to HIV non-disclosure do not take into account the recent Supreme Court of...
Please note that the sections of this document that describe the current state of the criminal law as it relates to HIV non-disclosure do not take into account the recent Supreme Court of...
1. Laws and practices that criminalize people living with HIV and vulnerable to HIV
A) People who use drugs
B) People in prison
C) Sex workers
D) Criminalization of HIV non-...
Two provincial Courts of Appeal have recently released unanimous decisions that clarify the law regarding the obligation imposed upon people living with HIV to disclose their HIV status prior to...
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...
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...
Update: the Supreme Court of Canada's February 2012 hearing of two appeals about when people living with HIV may be convicted of a crime for not disclosing their HIV status to sexual partners.
"These appeals raise the question of whether the offence of aggravated sexual assault can and should be established for HIV non-disclosure in circumstances where, in the Interveners’ submission,...
"There are many human rights challenges that must be tackled in order to respond effectively to the ongoing, twinned pandemics of HIV and of HIV-related human rights abuses ... we wish to...
A series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada.
This article was commissioned in advance of the XIX International AIDS Conference — to be held in July 2012 in the U.S. for the first time since 1990 — to provide an overview of the current...
On June 25, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided to postpone hearing appeals in two prosecutions for HIV non-disclosure, R v. M and R v. F, until after the Supreme Court of Canada delivers its...
On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in the cases of Mabior and D.C. The Court decided that people living with HIV have a legal duty, under the criminal law, to...
On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in the cases of Mabior and D.C. The Court decided that people living with HIV have a legal duty, under the criminal law, to...
Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2011 to November 30, 2012.
These submissions are informed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s and the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario’s (HALCO) extensive experience in working on the issue of the criminalization of...
Judging the epidemic has been prepared as a resource to help judges, magistrates, arbitrators and other judicial officers throughout the world adjudicate cases involving HIV-related issues. This...
Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013.
The final instalment in a series of six fact sheets about HIV and Aging in Canada.
The fifth in a series of six fact sheets on HIV and Aging in Canada.
The fourth in a series of six fact sheets on HIV and Aging in Canada.
The third in a series of six fact sheets on HIV and Aging in Canada.