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HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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Report
Increasingly more people who use drugs are locked away in the name of drug rehabilitation without any real access to medical care or legal recourse. Drug users rarely enter such detention centers voluntarily, and even if they do, they nearly never are allowed to leave...
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HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
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Report
WLSA–Malawi is challenging Malawi’s approach to marital property law before the Constitutional Court of Malawi because it discriminates against women. They are fighting for an approach to marital property that would give a husband and wife equal control...
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HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
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 load on the risk of HIV transmission;the current state of the law regarding viral load and HIV...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
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Report
Shadow Report to the UN Committee against Torture in relation to the review of the Fifth Periodic Report of the Russian Federation.This report considers facts, reasons for and conditions for mistreatment of drug users in Russia.Authors: Andrey Rylkov Foundation,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
How the property of couples is administered, owned and distributed at the end of a marriage has considerable relevance in the context of HIV/AIDS, especially in Malawi where women represent almost 60 percent of those over the age of 15 who are infected. Women and Law...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
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PDF
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Form or template
In February 2010, a varied group of legal experts on intellectual property law and access to medicines from North America, Africa and Europe were brought together at the UNDP headquarters in New York City to discuss inter alia whether the reforms proposed to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
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PDF
FEATURERedoubling global efforts to support HIV/AIDS and human rightsCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSHIV prevalence in prison is 15 times greater than in the community as a wholeNew study puts forth HIV treatment as preventionKeeping a common bawdy house becomes a “serious...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
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PDF
FEATURESCriminalizing HIV transmission or exposure: the context of francophone West and Central AfricaMSM law in francophone Africa and the fight against AIDS: the hypocrisy of certain countriesCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSBritish Columbia project seeks to improve access to...
