Publication Topic : Drug Policy
Letter to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) re: Torture and other ill-treatment against people who use drugs in Russia
“On behalf of the community of international civil society organizations working in the area of human rights and drug policy, we would like to draw your attention to the importance of the issue of torture and other ill-treatment of people who use drugs.”
Universal Periodic Review (Canada) – Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (October 2012)
This submission focusses on various aspects of Canada’s obligation to realize progressively the right to the highest attainable standard of health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Article 12), and specifically the right to health of people with addictions inside and outside prisons.
Submission to the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group, Sixteenth Session (2012) re: Review of Russian Federation
This report is focused on the implementation of recommendations given to the Government of the Russian Federation by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding access to HIV prevention, drug treatment and overdose prevention among people who inject drugs in the Russian Federation. We propose a number of recommendations that the UPR … Read more
Notice of Application to Ontario Superior Court of Justice
BETWEEN: STEVEN SIMONS, CANADIAN HIV/AIDS LEGAL NETWORK, PRISONERS WITH HIV/AIDS SUPPORT ACTION NETWORK, CANADIAN ABORIGINAL AIDS NETWORK and CATIE (Applicants) – and – MINISTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY, CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA, COMMISSIONER OF THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA and ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA (Respondents) APPLICATION UNDER Rule 14.05 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. … Read more