New legal principles launched on International Women's Day to advance decriminalization efforts – Global Commission on HIV and the Law
The International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) along with UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) officially launched a new set of expert jurist legal principles to guide the application of international human rights law to criminal law. The ‘8 March principles’ as they are called lay out a human rights-based approach…