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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Report to the International Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Publication date: 2013As 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...
Brief to the Toronto Board of Health regarding Supervised Injection Services in Toronto
Publication date: 2013A 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...
Right to Know: True or False? (INTERIGHTS Bulletin)
Publication date: 2013Russia 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...
Promoting Smart Policy on Drugs: Brief to the Canadian delegation to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Publication date: 2014"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...
Joint letter to UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé re: Russia and the Fourth Conference on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Publication date: 2014"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...
Human Rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Publication date: 2011The 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...
Joint NGO statement to UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, 7th Session re: traditional values
Publication date: 2011HRC 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...
Respecting and Promoting the Realization of Women’s Marital Property Rights in Malawi
Publication date: 2011WLSA–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...
Women and HIV — “Women and HIV Testing”
Publication date: 2012This is one in a series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada.
Women and HIV — “Women, Sex Work and HIV”
Publication date: 2012This is one in a series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada.