Finding Equality: A creative take on feminist judgment projects and the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure
This article reflects on the politics of feminist judgments, challenging the premises of the conventional methodology in contexts where the law cannot be redeemed through liberal legal methods. One such area is HIV non-disclosure. Canadian courts have repeatedly found that the criminal law has jurisdiction over a person’s failure to disclose their HIV-positive status in sexual relations. The article argues that the law in this area should not be rewritten using the conventional methodology because the law should be abolished. In contexts like this, feminists should have recourse to an expanded referential universe, including creative tools, strategies, and forms of literary and artistic expression to represent gender and sexuality differently.
End Punitive Practices for Infant Feeding!
On International Human Rights Day, 10th December 2024, the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW Global), the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), the HIV Justice Network (HJN) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) stand united to denounce punitive responses to people living with HIV who breast/chestfeed or comfort nurse. These practices are unjust, harmful, and violate fundamental human rights.
Women’s Leadership in issues of decriminalization: Experience of the EECA region
The compendium brings together research from the women's community, examples of documented personal stories and court cases. All the collected materials demonstrate how criminalisation of HIV is a global problem and how it is linked to gender-based violence. Experts believe that criminalising laws do not protect against HIV infection, but only make women worse off in society.
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