According to Susan T. Fried on 50.50, World AIDS Conference 2016 was the growing discussion about disastrous impac of criminal law. “We know the ways in which abusive laws and practices put sex workers, gay and other men who have sex with men, transgender women (there is still a dearth of data on HIV and transmen or lesbians and other women who have sex with women) and other marginalised groups at increased risk of contracting HIV and create serious and unmanageable barriers to accessing services and justice”.
The Fellow at Yale University, Global Health Justice Partnership also belives we know the ways in which governments use criminal laws not just to contain and regulate the lives of individuals, but they also use it to circumscribe the work of civil society organisations working on these issues.
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