North America's only supervised injection facility, Insite, opened its doors in September of 2003 with a federal exemption as a three-year scientific study. The results of the study, evaluated by an independent research team, showed it to be successful in engaging the target group in healthcare, preventing overdose death and HIV infections while increasing uptake and retention in detox and trea...

Since their adoption in 1892, the insanity laws in the Criminal Code of Canada have utilized a modified M'Naughton rule. The Department of Justice began work in the 1970s to update these laws. In 1983, soon after the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed, the case of Regina v. Swain provided the impetus for this change. In 1990 the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the old la...

The EU Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) provides an obligation for providers of publicly available electronic communications services and of public communications networks to retain traffic and location data for six months up to two years for the purpose of the investigation, detection, and prosecution of serious crime. Considering potential uses and misuses of retained data such as traffi...

In the United States, all people are constitutionally awarded the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the past few years, our political leaders have assailed these rights in the name of a “War Against Terrorism,” and they have done little to establish the public’s assumed right to have even basic healthcare. This right should be undeniable, even if it is not pr...

In 1948, three years after the adoption of the Charter, the General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has served as guiding principles on human rights and fundamental freedoms in the constitutions and laws of many of the Member States of the United Nations. The Universal Declaration prohibits all forms of discrimination based on sex and ensures the right to life,...

SUMMARY It has been 30 years since the adoption of African Charter on Rights and Welfare Child. This article takes opportunity to reflect where child rights discourse is going allow for proactivity in addressing emerging challenges changing context continent. Using positional reflexivity as methodology, I identify what call six transformative promptings which are engendering a shift discourse. ...

This article aims to present and analyse the assessment of ethnic policy Polish state made on basis Fourth Opinion Poland Advisory Committee Council Europe Framework Convention for Protection National Minorities Third Report Experts European Charter Regional or Minority Languages. The main thesis work is statement that although has not changed in analyzed period, some actions authorities testif...