FEATURES Still underground: searching for progress in realizing the human rights of women in prostitution Steps forward, backward, and sideways: Canada’s bill on exporting generic pharmaceuticals EDITORIAL High time to vastly scale up action on human rights CANADIAN NEWS Ontario: Police disclose HIV status of accused under Police Services Act BC: Campaign launched to protect … Read more
This article is the second in a series tracing the evolution of Canada’s legislation. It reviews the developments leading up to the adoption of Bill C-9 in its final form, and analyzes its positive and negative aspects. Hopefully, other advocates can learn from this experience and other countries can avoid replicating the negative aspects as … Read more
” We write on behalf of the undersigned civil society organizations, many of whom actively participate in the Microbicides Advocacy Group Network (MAG-Net). MAG-Net is a coalition of 30 Canadian AIDS service organizations, sexual and reproductive health organizations, international development NGOs and researchers interested in promoting the development of alternative HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection … Read more
“Perhaps more than any other G7 leader, you are aware of the importance of debt cancellation for impoverished countries, and the failures of past strategies to address the debt issue. Despite important gains secured by current debt relief strategies, poor countries still spend more on debt service than on health and education. Countries in Africa … Read more
In this issue: Joanne Csete to take helm: Network appoints new Executive Director Action and Activism at AIDS 2004 Drug Users and Prisoners Have Rights Too! Thai Drug Users’ Network Receives 2004 International Award for Action Treatment, Microbicide and Vaccine Activists Launch Joint Call for Action Inside the Network New Resources Fighting for the right … Read more