Publications

Vivir con VIH: Conozca sus Derechos REVELACIÓN Y EDUCACIÓN POST-SECUNDARIA Preguntas y Respuestas [Know Your Rights 4: Disclosure and post-secondary education in Spanish]

Vivir con VIH: Conozca sus derechos RECURSOS EN CASO DE DISCRIMINACIÓN O VIOLACIÓN DE LA PRIVACIDAD EN EL LUGAR DE TRABAJO Preguntas y Respuestas [Know Your Rights 3: Remedies for discrimination and privacy violations in the workplace in Spanish]

Vivir con VIH: Conozca sus Derechos AJUSTES EN EL LUGAR DE TRABAJO Preguntas y Respuestas [Know Your Rights 2: Accommodation in the workplace in Spanish]

November 21, 2014 Read Part 1 here In May 2014, social justice activists and lawyers, representatives of non-profit organizations, federal and provincial government lawyers and interested public crowded into the Ontario Court of Appeal to hear an appeal of a motion to dismiss in Tanudjaja v. Canada. The courtroom was so packed that a satellite … Read more

November 13, 2014 In Canada, November 22nd is National Housing Strategy Day, an important time to reflect on housing and homelessness in our country. #NationalHousingDay — You can read more here. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of coming home. Sliding the key into your door lock, you enter a space that’s yours and protects … Read more

“On behalf of the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO) and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (Legal Network), please accept this brief recommending that sections 172 and 173 of Budget Bill C-43 be withdrawn.”

Bill C-2 (An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act) undermines the rights of people who use drugs to access lifesaving and health-protecting services. 

“We are deeply concerned about the continued criminalization of consensual sexual relationships between adult men in Jamaica and the stigmatization, marginalization and violence that it helps perpetuate. Our concern has intensified in recent years in light of a seeming surge in virulent expressions of hatred, up to and including mob assaults, torture and murder, directed … Read more

This brief compares the Criminal Code provisions proposed by Bill C-36 against the Criminal Code provisions struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada in R v. Bedford. It explains how the new law, if enacted, will replicate the effects of the old law on the security of sex workers and, as such, reproduce the harms the Supreme Court of … Read more

Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014.