Released in November 2010, the 2009-2010 annual report of the Correctional Investigator--the ombudsman for federal prisoners--presents a bleak picture of over-crowded prisons lacking in rehabilitative programming and increasingly populated by mentally ill and substance-dependant inmates in need of services.
In December 2010, the Federal Court rejected a former prisoner's request for judicial review of a decision of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) regarding his choice of physician while incarcerated.
On 12 October 2010, a majority of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia allowed the appeal of Shari Kiselbach and the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United against Violence Society (SWUAV) regarding their standing to challenge provisions of the Criminal Code concerning prostitution.
On 26 January 2011, the Federal Court allowed an application for judicial review by Ferona Elaine Mings-Edwards, who based her application for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, including the hardship that she claimed that she would face in Jamaica from her former domestic partner and because of her HIV-positive status.
On 8 September 2010, the Ontario Superior Court rejected a claim that Canadian Blood Services (CBS) is violating Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) by refusing blood donations from men who have had sex with other men (MSM) since 1977. The case arose because CBS sued Kyle Freeman, a gay man, for lying about his sexuality on the screening questionnaire in order to give blood.
On 21 October 2010, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the office of then-mayor of MoscowYuri Luzhkov violated the rights to freedom of assembly and from discrimination of Russians who had sought to organize and participate in gay pride marches in the Russian capital of Moscow.
In October 2010, the government of Ukraine made progressive revisions to a law aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and supporting the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs). However, policing methods continue to constrain access to harm reduction services.
Violence against homosexuality is growing in Africa, where most of the countries on the continent continue to criminalize same-sex relations, fostering a climate of hate that, in some cases, is abetted by politicians.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ruled that proposed legislation allowing marriage commissioners to refuse to solemnize same-sex marriages based on religious objections would violate the equality rights of gays and lesbians under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter). The Court expressed its opinion in a Reference involving proposed amendments to the Marriage Act.
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