People living with HIV in Canada continue to face unjust criminal prosecution and imprisonment for allegedly not disclosing their HIV status to sexual partners. The Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network is hosting a full-day symposium in Toronto on HIV criminalization with legal experts, members of parliament, activists and people living with HIV.<\/p>\n
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8th\u00a0Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights (see more here<\/a>)<\/p>\n WHEN:<\/b><\/p>\n Friday, June 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM<\/p>\n (9:15 \u2013 9:45: remarks and Q&A with Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General David Lametti)<\/b><\/p>\n WHERE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n WSIB Building, 200 Front Street West, 27th Floor, Lakeview Room, Toronto, ON M5V 3L1<\/span><\/p>\n WHO:<\/b><\/p>\n Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)<\/i><\/p>\n Richard Elliott (Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network)<\/i><\/p>\n Alexander McClelland (Concordia University researching)<\/i><\/p>\n Marvelous Muchenje (Women\u2019s Health in Women\u2019s Hands)<\/i><\/p>\n Michelle Whonnock (Advocate)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n Ryan Peck (HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario)<\/i><\/p>\n Edwin J. Bernard (HIV Justice Network)<\/i><\/p>\n Wayne Cunningham (Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Bergman LLP)<\/i><\/p>\n L\u00e9a Pelletier-Marcotte (COCQ-SIDA)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Chad Clarke (Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization)<\/i><\/p>\n Mona Loutfy (Women\u2019s College Hospital, University of Toronto & Maple Leaf Medical Clinic)<\/i><\/p>\n Andrea Kr\u00fcsi (University of British Columbia)<\/i><\/p>\n Flo Ranville (SHAWNA study peer mentor)<\/i><\/p>\n Eric Mykhalovskiy (York University)<\/i><\/p>\n Naina Khanna (Positive Women\u2019s Network \u2013 USA)<\/i><\/p>\n Karen Segal (Women\u2019s Legal Education & Action Fund)<\/i><\/p>\n Hon. Randall Garrison (Member of Parliament)<\/i><\/p>\n Matthew Gourlay (Henein Hutchinson LLP)<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The event is open to the public, with tickets currently sold out. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n Free entry for media, with confirmation<\/b>. Interviews with select panelists are available on request.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -30-<\/p>\n Contact:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Emma Riach, Communications and Campaigns Officer<\/p>\n Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network<\/p>\n Telephone: +1 416 595-1666 ext. 236<\/p>\n Email:\u00a0<\/span>eriach@aidslaw.ca<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 People living with HIV in Canada continue to face unjust criminal prosecution and imprisonment for allegedly not disclosing their HIV status to sexual partners. The Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network is hosting a full-day symposium in Toronto on HIV criminalization with legal experts, members of parliament, activists and people living with HIV. WHAT: 8th\u00a0Symposium … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[148],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-17849","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-criminalization","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22562,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17849\/revisions\/22562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=17849"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=17849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}