Communication to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Independent Expert in the Field of Cultural Rights regarding violation by the Government of the Russian Federation of the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.
“There are many human rights challenges that must be tackled in order to respond effectively to the ongoing, twinned pandemics of HIV and of HIV-related human rights abuses … we wish to highlight one phenomenon of growing global concern and relevance. “The epidemic of overly broad criminalization of HIV non-disclosure, exposure or transmission has: led … Read more
Brief presented in February 2012 to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, in relation to the Committee’s study on Bill C-10, An Act to enact the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and to amend the State Immunity Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts.
The Government of the Russian Federation has retaliated against and suppressed the activities of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF), including the exercising of its freedom of expression in promoting recommendations given by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) to the Russian Government in its Concluding Observations of 20 May 2011. Most … Read more
“These appeals raise the question of whether the offence of aggravated sexual assault can and should be established for HIV non-disclosure in circumstances where, in the Interveners’ submission, there is no ‘significant risk’ of transmission because of factors that dramatically reduce that risk, such as the use of condoms or an undetectable or low viral … Read more
Update: the Supreme Court of Canada’s February 2012 hearing of two appeals about when people living with HIV may be convicted of a crime for not disclosing their HIV status to sexual partners.