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Collective response re: Bill C-15 on Mandatory Minimum Sentences – Organizations and Experts Across the Country Decry a Damaging Step in the Wrong Direction
“As front-line organizations, researchers and experts who work with people who use drugs, we are opposed to Bill C-15, an Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.”
Clean Switch: The Case for Prison Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada
Harm reduction measures aimed at preventing HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in prisons are neither new nor groundbreaking in Canada. Prison systems have implemented, to varying degrees, forms of harm reduction such as condoms, bleach and methadone maintenance treatment. However, as of September 2008, no Canadian jurisdiction had established a prison-based needle and … Read more
Результат влияния ООН и России на наркополитику в странах Центральной Азии – членах СНГ
Опубликовано в At What Cost? HIV and Human Rights Consequences of the Global “War on Drugs”, Open Society Institute Public Health Program, 2009 (www.opensocietyfoundations.org/topics/drug-policy-reform). Related Publications Effects of UN and Russian Influence on Drug Policy in Central Asia (English version)
Criminalization confusion and concerns: the decade since the Cuerrier decision – HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 14(1)
In 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a person living with HIV could be found guilty of aggravated assault if he or she did not disclose his or her HIV-positive status and exposed another person to a “significant risk” of HIV transmission. The notorious case — R. v. Cuerrier — involved an HIV-positive … Read more
HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 14(1) May 2009
FEATURE Criminalization confusion and concerns: the decade since the Cuerrier decision CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS B.C. medical officers of health seek more supervised injection facilities Human rights complaint filed against Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons over methadone program More money for Vancouver drug court, but future funding for all drug courts uncertain Survey reveals need to … Read more
Bill C-15: Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences – An open letter to the federal Ministers of Justice and Health
“As front-line organizations, researchers and experts who work with people who use drugs, we are writing to express our opposition to Bill C-15, an Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.”
Misleading and Misguided: Mandatory Prison Sentences for Drug Offences (April 2009) – Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding Bill C-15
Brief for submission April 27, 2009 to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Legal Network News 32 – April 2009
FEATURES Broad action to fix CAMR, treat children First Annual Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights Compulsory drug treatment in Thailand: raising human rights concerns Women’s rights legislative resource previewed HIV and the law, post-Jane Doe Yukon gets reprieve on forced HIV testing PROFILE Gilles Marchildon LEGAL NETWORK IN THE NEWS IN BRIEF Treatment … Read more
Joint Statement to UN Human Rights Council, 10th Session re: Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (Item 8)
“The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action affirms the principles of universality and non-discrimination, and yet many people continue to be denied their rights solely because of their sexual orientation and gender identity…. We therefore welcome the joint statement on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, delivered at the General Assembly last December by … Read more
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