The HIV Legal Network (www.hivlegalnetwork.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research and analysis, advocacy and litigation, public education and community mobilization. The Legal Network is Canada’s leading advocacy organization working on the legal and human rights issues raised by HIV/AIDS.
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Human Rights Are My Rights
Publication date: 2015In July 2014, International AIDS Conference delegates from all over the world had their say on the importance of human rights for people living with and affected by HIV. Watch this video to hear what they had to say.
Right(s) Now: Campaign Video
Publication date: 2015The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network's 2014-2017 campaign to fight for health and social justice.
“Love and Respect”
Publication date: 2015In Jamaica, homophobia and transphobia are fuelling the HIV epidemic. Several TV stations in Jamaica refused to air a "tolerance ad," produced by AIDS-Free World, calling on Jamaicans to love and respect their LGBTI family members. So Jamaican lawyer and...
Love and Respect: Q&A on Jamaican TV ad court case
Publication date: 2015In 2012, Jamaican human rights activists and AIDS-Free World produced “Love and Respect,” a short, 30-second video advertisement calling for respect for the basic human rights of Jamaican LGBTI people.However, television stations in Jamaica refused to air...
An Injection of Reason: Critical Analysis of Bill C-2
Publication date: 2014Bill C-2 (An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act) undermines the rights of people who use drugs to access lifesaving and health-protecting services. Read more about supervised consumption services in Canada and internationally, and their...
Sex Workers, Unite! (Litigating for Sex Workers’ Freedom of Association in Russia)
Publication date: 2015The existing legal framework in Russia makes sex work and related activities punishable offenses, leaving sex workers stigmatized, vulnerable to violence, and disproportionally affected by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. In light of international human...
Criminal Law & HIV Non-Disclosure in Canada
Publication date: 2014This is a series of three info sheets on the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada: The obligation to disclose HIV-positive status under Canadian criminal law The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada and internationally Criminalization, public...
Net(work) Gains Gains nets – Rapport annuel 2014–2015
Publication date: 2015CANADIAN HIV/AIDS LEGAL NETWORK | ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015
Putting human rights into human hands in Russian-speaking countries
Publication date: 2014Russia has the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic, driven by injection-drug use, and fuelled by discrimination, criminalization and horrific human rights abuses. This video — produced by the Levi Strauss Foundation’s HIV Advocates program...
Drug policy and human rights: the Canadian context
Publication date: 2015Submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 28/28, UN Doc. A/HRC/28/L.22 (2015)