Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Postcard
With Canada’s fatal overdose crisis still surging, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, issued 50,000 wallet-size cards with vital information about the 2017 Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act. The...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Why “pop-up” overdose prevention sites are a legally justifiable and morally necessary response to the opioid overdose crisis and government inaction.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (“IRPA”) stipulates that foreign nationals are inadmissible to Canada on health grounds if their health condition might reasonably be expected to cause an “excessive demand” on health or social services, or if they have an...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network, CATIE and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network work to promote the human rights of people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), including Indigenous women...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Legal Network, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and International Centre for Science in Drug Policy issued a joint letter to Ms. Victoria Atkins, MP, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the UK Home Office, regarding comments made during a Parliamentary debate about...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s strategic plan, Respect, Protect, Fulfill: A Human Rights Response to HIV sets out the goals for the organization over the next five years.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In this brief, the Legal Network provides information about Canada’s implementation of its international human rights obligations as raised in the draft report, organized under subheadings included in the draft report. It expands on issues presented in the Legal...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In February 2018, the Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada retired. The Legal Network sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale, and Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Drug policy is at a critical juncture in Canada, and we need our elected representatives to put even greater emphasis on public health objectives and outcomes, respecting human rights for all. Welcome steps have been taken on this front following the 2015 election,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2018
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In recent years, the Government of Canada has renewed a commitment to ongoing dialogue and constructive engagement with civil society in the response to HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs). In response to...