An educational and ground breaking forum that convenes specialized front-line workers, lawyers, anti-violence educators, women living with HIV, and feminist thinkers
to illuminate pressing issues for women living with HIV, including criminalization of nondisclosure.
Friday, December 4th 2015
1700 LABATT HALL HARBOUR CENTRE
515 WEST HASTINGS ST.
VANCOUVER, BC V6B 5K3
Power point presentations,
Educational videos,
A panel and Q&A.
We have limited seats, please RSVP as soon as possible
Morning and afternoon
snacks will be provided.
Presenters
Introduction to forum
Donna Tennant, Executive Director Positive Women’s Network (PWN)
Angela Marie MacDougall,
Executive Director Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS)
Women and HIV: The Realities of
Violence and Criminalization
Melissa Medjuck • PWN support worker
Sangam • PWN educator
Erin Seatter • PWN resource coordinator
Criminalization of nondisclosure:
The legal perspective
Laura Track, Lawyer
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
Clips from 2 documentaries by the Canadia HIV/AIDS Legal Network:
Positive Women: Exposing Injustice
and Consent
Panel: Voices from the frontlines
Questions and answers
MC, Rosa Elena Arteaga
Manager of Direct Services
and Clinical Practice • BWSS
This event is presented as a part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence and in Honour of World AIDS Day and AIDS Awareness Week
RVSP BY EMAIL: directservices@bwss.org OR CALL: 604.687.1868 EXT. 314
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Download the poster here
