• 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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• Discrimination
• Poverty

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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• Decolonization
• 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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