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The Proposed “Mandatory Testing and Disclosure Act”: An Unjustified and Unnecessary Violation of Rights – A submission to the Yukon Department of Justice and Members of the Legislative Assembly

The Legal Network supports measures to prevent the spread of HIV, including for workers such as police officers, firefighters, ambulance attendants, paramedics and those providing emergency assistance (collectively referred to as emergency responders in this submission) and health care workers. The Legal Network also supports access to quality HIV testing and counselling, and access to … Read more

HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 13(2/3) December 2008

FEATURE Legislation contagion: building resistance CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS Results of the first North American prescription heroin study are promising New excessive demand policy for immigration applicants British Columbia adopts E-Health Act (Most) political parties respond to questionnaire on AIDS issues during federal election Immigration and Refugee Protection Act amended In brief Federal Government announces new strategy … Read more

Legislation contagion: building resistance – HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 13(2/3)

The HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review recently carried a feature article recounting the spread of problematic new HIV laws in west and central Africa. It outlined less-than-model approaches in the AWARE-HIV/AIDS “model” law and described how its provisions had been replicated in many national HIV laws. At the time of writing that article, eight national … Read more

Harm Reduction and Human Rights: The Global Response to Injection-Driven HIV Epidemics – Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Despite connections between drug control, human rights and HIV, the United Nations drug control and human rights regimes have developed in what the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health has described as ‘parallel universes’. The drug control entities rarely discuss human rights and the human rights bodies and mechanisms, in turn, have … Read more

Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper re: Demonstrating Canada’s commitment to achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010

“As international development, humanitarian, AIDS service, trade union, faith-based and human rights organizations, joined together under the aegis of the Global Treatment Access Group (GTAG), we encourage you to show Canada’s commitment to address the global HIV/AIDS crisis by announcing renewed funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) on World … Read more

Legal Network News 31 – October 2008

AIDS 2008 Legal Network highlights human rights at AIDS 2008 Introducing AIDSLEX First-ever international rally for human rights and HIV/AIDS Networking for human rights Legal Network researcher lauded FEATURE Election 2008 PROFILES New faces at the Legal Network MOVING ON Richard Pearshouse IN BRIEF Emphasizing human rights in HIV testing HIV and disability Status report … Read more