Argumentaire technique contre la criminalisation de certaines populations clés
Ce document est une analyse technique sur des questions de criminalisation de certaines populations clés. Le but de ce travail est de démontrer sur le plan juridique les contradictions qu’une loi qui criminaliserait certains comportements de certaines populations clés pourraient présenter au vu des engagements internationaux, des traités internationaux dûment ratifiés, de la constitution et de la loi de 2008 portant protection des droits des PVVIH et PA de la RDC. Ce document s'adresse aux parlementaires et aux militants des droits humains.
Redefining Risk: Judicially Heightened Risk Standards and HIV-Specific Criminal Laws
This Note explains the risk of HIV transmission associated with certain behaviours, lays out variations in HIV-specific criminal laws, and examines how those laws are applied. It also examines the courts’ reasoning in Rhoades and Hogg as well as analyzes the legal and policy problems that these laws create, the challenges to amending or repealing the laws.
El enjuiciamiento de casos penales relacionados con el VIH en Canadá
El presente documento tiene por objeto ayudar a las autoridades fiscales a elaborar dichas orientaciones para evitar el uso perjudicial del derecho penal en relación con el VIH y garantizar el uso prudente de los escasos recursos de la fiscalía. Aunque otras infecciones de transmisión sexual pueden suscitar preocupaciones similares a las del VIH, han sido abrumadoramente los casos relacionados con el VIH los que han atraído el procesamiento y los comentarios judiciales. Por ello, el presente documento se centra en los juicios relacionados con el VIH.
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The Threat Lives On: How to Exclude Expectant Mothers from Prosecution for Mere Exposure of HIV to their Fetuses and Infants (2015)
This article articulates how the threat of prosecution of mothers living with HIV who expose or transfer the virus to their foetuses or newborn will discourage and scare women away from seeking proper medical treatment instead of encouraging HIV treatment and prevention. It also explores how HIV-specific criminal transmission laws in the United States could hamper and stifle the progress in prevention and treatment of vertical transmission. It concludes by proposing a model for change in addressing these HIV-specific criminal transmission statutes.
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Tunisie : Loi no 92-71 du 27 juillet 1992
Loi relative aux maladies transmissibles dont les articles 11 et 18 pénalisent les personnes qui concourent délibérément par leur comportement à la transmission de la maladie dont elles sont atteintes à d’autres personnes.
Advancing HIV Justice 2: Building momentum in global advocacy against HIV criminalisation
Provides a progress report of achievements and challenges in global advocacy against HIV criminalisation from April 2013 to 30 September 2015.
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Who? What? Where? When? And with what consequences?: An analysis of criminal cases of HIV non-disclosure in Canada
Explores the evolution of the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada, focusing on “criminalization creep”: increasing numbers of people being charged with increasingly severe crimes.
Policy Position Statement on HIV Criminalization
Opposes laws that distinguish HIV from other comparable diseases or that create disproportionate penalties for disclosure, exposure or transmission of HIV disease beyond normal public health ordinances. Supports non-punitive prevention approaches to HIV centred on current scientific understanding and evidence based research.
HIV Criminalization Laws and Policies Promote Discrimination and Must Be Reformed
States HIV criminalization laws and policies promote discrimination and hinder HIV prevention, care and treatment. Calls for law reform and education.