Publication Type: Advocacy
NGO letter to Prime Minister of Thailand re: forced drug dependence ‘treatment’
“We write to express our grave concern at reports of the Thai government’s plans to round up and ‘treat’ 30,000 people who use drugs from 20-27 February…. We ask that the Government urgently clarify this strategy…. In particular: what is legal basis for any such detention en masse? What assessment of drug dependence will be … Read more
Letter to Trade Ministers re: Safeguarding Access to Medicines in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
“We, the undersigned civil society organizations, write to you regarding intellectual property provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). We are concerned that intellectual property measures that may be included in an eventual agreement could undermine patients’ access to vital medicines, and contravene promises of a new trade model and ’21st century’ agreement.”
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.
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.”
Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper re: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
“We are writing you in advance of the second anniversary of the unanimous adoption by the General Assembly of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 10 December 2010 to urge you to sign and ratify or accede to this Protocol and fully implement it without delay.”