About the Office

B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner

B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner, Kasari Govender, started her five-year term on September 3, 2019. Since then, our Office has been working swiftly to build a strong team, to listen deeply to the concerns of British Columbians, to issue policy guidance to protect the human rights of underserved communities and to lay a rights-based foundation for our work. As an independent office of the Legislature we are uniquely positioned to ensure human rights in B.C. are protected, respected and advanced on a systemic level throughout our society.

Please note we are not the BC Human Rights Clinic. We do not offer legal advice or provide representation.

Please note we are not the BC Human Rights Tribunal. We do not accept or adjudicate individual human rights complaints.