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November 6, 2015

Deja Vu All Over Again: Armed Forces Court of Appeals again Vacates Pinkela's Aggravated Assault and Reckless Endangerment Convictions

 

November 4, 2015

New Forms Required for Verification of Immigration Documents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 2015

 
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October 27, 2015

CHLP Testimony before New York City Council Advocates for LGBTQ and System-involved Youth (2015)

September 15, 2015

Dept. of Justice HIV expert becomes new CHLP Co-Director

Allison Nichol, a nationally recognized expert on federal disability antidiscrimination law, is The Center for HIV Law and Policy's first Co-Director!
August 12, 2015

Amnesty International Adopts Policy to Protect Human Rights of Sex Workers (2015)

Amnesty International votes to support decriminalization of consensual sex work.
August 11, 2015

NHAS 2020: Stakeholders Call For Concrete Plans to End HIV Ignorance and Criminalization of PLWHA, Sex Workers, People Who Inject Drugs

 
August 5, 2015

Choice of New Federal Prisons Director Matters to HIV/LGBT Advocates (2015)

The pending retirement of current Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Charles E. Samuels is an opportunity for President Obama to appoint a progressive, experienced innovator committed to such prison reforms as decarceration, improved conditions of confinement, racial justice and gender equity.
July 29, 2015

CHLP Among Panelists at Congressional HIV Criminalization Briefing

 
July 15, 2015

CHLP joins National LGBTQ Task Force in Task Force's Comments to FDA Re Unsupported Blood Donation Restrictions on MSM, IVDUs and Sex Workers (2015)

The National LGBTQ Task Force drafted and submitted comments to the FDA on the 2015 Revised Recommendations for Reducing the Risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission by Blood and Blood Products. The FDA’s new guidance represented the most recent revision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1992.
July 14, 2015

Missouri Judge's Sentencing of Michael Johnson in HIV “Exposure” Case Decried As “Barbaric” (2015)

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