Ten Years of Action For Health and Human Rights: Presentations Made on the Occasion of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Annual General Meeting and Skills Building Workshops, Montreal, 13-15 September 2002

This document contains a summary of welcoming remarks, opening and closing plenaries, and edited texts of presentations given at the 2002 Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Annual General Meeting. Libby Davies, Thomas Kerr and representatives of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) gave presentations about VANDU during the ceremony for the first Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (given to VANDU). Joanne Csete of Human Rights Watch, Peter Leuprecht of McGill's Faculty of Law, and Su Zhaosheng (wife of Dr. Wan Yanhai) gave presentations about Dr. Wan Yanhai, a Chinese AIDS activist who received the International Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. Other presentations contained in this document include the Keynote Address by David Hoe on continuing human and legal rights challenges for people living with HIV/AIDS and closing presentations by Ralf Jurgens, Director of the Legal Network, and Joane Csete, on the politics of HIV/AIDS and the need for continued activism.