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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Submission to Global Affairs Canada: Human Rights Priorities for Canadian International Assistance
Publication date: 2016“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...
Action = Life: Call for an Immediate Response to National Crisis of Opioid Overdose Deaths
Publication date: 2016Canada is experiencing an overwhelming opioid overdose crisis. Over the past several years Canada has seen an alarming increase in reported opioid-related fatalities and injuries. Overdose deaths are preventable if the right measures are taken. As we approach...
Review of Canada’s Compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Publication date: 2016“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...
Submission to UN Women’s Consultation on Sex Work
Publication date: 2016“The Legal Network’s guiding values are rooted in a focus on the human rights of marginalized populations such as sex workers and their meaningful participation in policies and programs that affect them. We make this submission to UN Women to urge the agency to (1)...
Brief to the House of Commons Standing Commitee on International Trade on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Publication date: 2016“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...
Briefing to the High-Level Working Group on Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents
Publication date: 2016“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;...
An Injection of Reason: Critical Analysis of the Respect for Communities Act (Q&A)
Publication date: 2016The Respect for Communities Act undermines the rights of people who use drugs to access life-saving and health-protecting services. Read more about supervised consumption services in Canada and internationally, and their positive impact on individuals and...
Respect for Communitites Act: The Case for Repeal
Publication date: 2016The so-called Respect for Communities Act was passed in 2015 in the last Parliament, with the clear goal of impeding the expansion of supervised consumption services (SCS). The Act is an affront to the extensive scientific evidence of the need for such health services...
Submission to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Medical Inadmissibility
Publication date: 2016In 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...
World AIDS Day: Letter to Canada’s Members of Parliament and Senators
Publication date: 2016“In the past year, the federal government has taken some important steps in promoting the health and human rights of people living with and affected by HIV. […] But so much more is needed.” Read our letter to Canada’s Members of Parliament and Senators ahead of World...