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Reimagining human rights in B.C.: Strategic Plan 2020/21–2024/25
Published on: December 21, 2020
Our five-year Strategic Plan (2020/21–2024/25) lays the foundation for all our work by outlining our vision, mandate, theory of change, guiding principles, strategic priorities and approach to understanding our impact on promoting and protecting human rights in the province.
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Laying the foundations: Annual Report 2019/20 and Service Plan 2020/21–2022/23
Published on: December 21, 2020
A key accountability mechanism for our work is the Commissioner’s yearly budget, service plan and annual report submission and presentation to the all-party Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services of the Legislative Assembly of B.C.
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COVID-19
A human rights approach to mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published on: November 4, 2020
This policy guidance from B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender details how mask-wearing requirements must accommodate people with disabilities or medical conditions that prevent them from using of non-medical masks.
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Report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Published on: September 29, 2020
Under international law, economic rights— like the right to an ‘adequate standard of living’ through necessities like food, water and housing— are protected.
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Discrimination
Disaggregated demographic data collection in British Columbia: The grandmother perspective
Published on: September 29, 2020
This report both answers and echoes the calls to collect disaggregated data to advance human rights.
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