Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report is focused on the implementation of recommendations given to the Government of the Russian Federation by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding access to HIV prevention, drug treatment and overdose prevention among people...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
This submission focusses on various aspects of Canada’s obligation to realize progressively the right to the highest attainable standard of health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Article 12), and specifically the right...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
Authors: Canadian AIDS Society (Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network as signatory)
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
As of January 1, 2012 there were 21,524 people living with HIV officially registered in Uzbekistan; 44.6% of them are identified as people who inject drugs. Injecting drug use is the main risk factor driving the epidemic in Uzbekistan.Authors: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
A comment on the Toronto Board of Health’s study of supervised injection services, drawing the Board’s attention to certain elements which are particularly relevant from the perspective of public health and human rights, including relevant Canadian and...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Article
Russia is home to the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the world, chiefly driven by injection drug use. However, to the puzzlement of the impacted populations, public health activists and international NGOs that work to battle HIV/AIDS, the Russian government continues...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2014
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
"The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network are participating in the civil society processes preparing for the upcoming 57th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), and the High-Level Segment that will immediately...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2014
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
"On behalf of advocates for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), we write to express our concerns about the Fourth Conference on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECAAC) which is...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The objective of this paper is to examine the human rights content and impact of the Global Fund’s work in three areas — grant-making processes, grants, and advocacy, especially to see how this unique institution manages the balancing act to which its...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
HRC Resolution 16/3, “Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind” stresses that “traditions shall not be invoked to justify harmful practices violating universal human rights...
