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Fixing Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime: Campaign for Life-Saving Treatment at Critical Stage – Update: January 2011
The campaign in Canada’s Parliament to fix Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) — so that more affordable live-saving medicines can get to developing countries — continues and is now at a critical juncture.
Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security regarding its study of Bill C-39
This submission draws the Committee’s attention to certain elements of Bill C-39 (An Act to Amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts) which are relevant from the perspective of human rights and public health.
Summary – Court of Appeal of Manitoba R. v. Mabior, 2010 MBCA 93
The Legal Network’s summary of the 13 October 2010 decision by the Manitoba Court of Appeal in R. v. Mabior, 2010 MBCA 93.
Human Rights as a Key Part of the Next Strategic Plan of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
This discussion paper highlights why human rights should represent a key part of the next strategic plan of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, outlines some current Global Fund initiatives that support human rights, and identifies opportunities for strategically enhancing human rights and health outcomes. It suggests that a new strategic plan … Read more
World AIDS Day: An open letter to Canada’s Members of Parliament
“On World AIDS Day, we are writing to ask you to place people before politics and support an initiative that will make a tangible difference in the lives of people in developing countries.”