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News, information, and commentary by The Center for HIV Law and Policy.

12/17/2020 1:07pm

Events for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a day on which the sex worker community remembers victims of violence over the past year and calls attention to the social stigma, discrimination, and criminalization of sex work that have contributed to this violence. CHLP joins the sex work community’s fight to end violence and challenges the violence and harm that criminalization of both health status and consensual victimless conduct cause to sex workers.

12/11/2020 4:58pm

CHLP Moderates World AIDS Day Panel on the Role of Sexual Health Literacy in Ending the Epidemic for NYS ETE Summit

CHLP's Amir Sadeghi moderates a World AIDS Day panel for the NYS Department of Health's Ending the Epidemic (ETE) Summit.

12/3/2020 3:44pm

Prosecutor, Criminal Defense Lawyer, and Public Health Law Organizations Call for Criminal Legal and Detention Systems as COVID-19 Vaccination Priority

CHLP, NACDL, and the APA released a joint statement that recognizes the essential nature of the criminal legal system to society, and calls on those within that system, including all individuals living and working in the nation’s jails, prisons, and other detention facilities, to be prioritized in the COVID-19 vaccination process.

11/30/2020 4:38pm

CHLP Focuses on Activism and Inclusion for World AIDS Day 2020

Saluting World AIDS Day with new state criminal legal reform fact sheets, a video on the meaningful inclusion of people living with HIV, and decriminalization advocacy at the Smithsonian Institution and New York’s Ending the Epidemic Summit

11/12/2020 8:48am

CHLP Brief Calls out Homophobic Bias in Case of Gay Man Unjustly Designated a “Sexually Violent Predator”

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CHLP filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of Virginia in support of Galen Baughman, a young gay man at risk of indefinite civil confinement due to an unjust designation as a “sexually violent predator”. The brief describes the deep homophobic bias embedded in the civil commitment assessment process and in the drive to confine him in the absence of credible evidence.