Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“In the past year, the federal government has taken some important steps in promoting the health and human rights of people living with and affected by HIV. […] But so much more is needed.” Read our letter to Canada’s Members of Parliament and Senators ahead of World...
Organization:
Positive Women’s Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
PWN organizational chart as of August 8, 2016.The PWN resources in Sage can be reproduced and adapted for non-commercial use with credit to the author. Please note that resources are being shared for archival reference and may contain information that is now...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016.
Organization:
Positive Women’s Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
The intake form for new members at PWN.The PWN resources in Sage can be reproduced and adapted for non-commercial use with credit to the author. Please note that resources are being shared for archival reference and may contain information that is now out-of-date....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“Canada is a party to the three main UN drug control conventions, which aim to control illicit drugs by reducing supply and demand, in particular through requiring States Parties to adopt varying degrees of prohibitions and sanctions on a range of designated...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In Canada, people seeking permanent resident status or temporary residence as students or workers can be rejected on the basis of their HIV status due to the “excessive demand” provision of Canada’s laws governing medical inadmissibility. Relying on...
Organization:
Realize (previously CWGHR)
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“We, the undersigned, represent many different communities and interests. But today we speak with one voice, firmly committed to health and human rights, in support of desperately needed prison-based needle and syringe programs (PNSPs) in Canada. The time for PNSPs is...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“Globally, prisons disproportionately incarcerate people from marginalized communities, who, in turn, are disproportionately affected by conditions such as drug dependence, HIV, and hepatitis C virus. … Section 5(3)(a)(i)(D) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
The so-called Respect for Communities Act was passed in 2015 in the last Parliament, with the clear goal of impeding the expansion of supervised consumption services (SCS). The Act is an affront to the extensive scientific evidence of the need for such health services...
