The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is releasing a statement on behalf of 120 Canadian civil society organizations, to protest Bill C-2, which is expected to receive third reading and be put to a final vote in the House of Commons on March 23: “This is a profoundly misguided and damaging piece of legislation,” said Richard … Read more
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network issued a statement on Bill C-2, Respect for communities Act. “Now before committee in the House of Commons, Bill C-2 would further perpetuate harms against some of those in our communities who are most marginalized — people who use drugs. Last week, with little fanfare and even less attention to scientific … Read more
The Canadian HIV/ AIDS Legal Network said that Feb. 1 could have been a landmark day for human rights in drug policy and health care in Canada, but the opportunity was missed when Ontario’s Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision that had ruled the federal government’s current laws on access to cannabis for … Read more
This World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, is a special one for a Canadian organization with truly global reach: the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is celebrating 20 years of research, human rights advocacy, and community education and mobilization, in Canada and around the world. Most recently, the Legal Network spearheaded two very public fights: to bring … Read more
The Canadian HIV/ AIDS Legal Network stated that it was profoundly disappointed that Parliament has decided to reject reason and overwhelming evidence by defeating Bill C-398, An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes), which would have ensured greater access to affordable medicines for people dying of treatable diseases such as AIDS, … Read more
In the lead up to World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Grandmothers Advocacy Network threw a public, outdoor birthday party on Nov. 27 across from Parliament Hill to ask members of Parliament to give the gift of life. Half of all infants born with HIV in the developing … Read more
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network issued a statement to Canada's parliamentarians to support Bill C-398, An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes). The full statement is available online. Call 416-595-1666 x 228.
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network welcomes the second reading of Bill C-398, An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes). A bill the network said is a critical humanitarian bill to reform Canada’s flawed Access to Medicines Regime. The network added that Parliament once again has an important opportunity to enact … Read more
A coalition of interveners issued a statement regarding the ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that says that even the responsible use of a condom does not protect a person living with HIV from rampant prosecution. The group added that the court's judgments in R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C., two cases relating … Read more
The Supreme Court of Canada has announced that it will render its judgments in R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C., two cases relating to the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure. A coalition of organizations — including the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, the Coalition des organismes communautaires québécois de lutte contre le … Read more
