• Detention
• Discrimination

Submission to the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General regarding immigration detention in provincial correctional facilities

Published on: April 4, 2022

BCOHRC was invited to make a submission on the human rights implications of the agreement between BC Corrections and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to use provincial prisons to detain asylum-seekers under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) as the provincial government reviews the agreement.

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• Detention

Equity is safer: Human rights considerations for policing reform in British Columbia

Published on: November 24, 2021

These submissions to the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act (SCORPA) use disaggregated demographic data to reveal disturbing racial disparities in policing in our province.

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• General

Building a culture of human rights: Annual Report 2020/21 and Service Plan 2021/22–2023/24

Published on: November 22, 2021

Our Annual Report (2020/2021) tells the story of our work and outcomes resulting from the previous fiscal year.

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Budget submission 2021/22–2023/24

Published on: August 17, 2021

This submission was presented to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services.

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Public Interest Disclosure Act: Annual report about disclosures for BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner

Published on: August 17, 2021

The Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA), B.C.’s whistleblower protection law, came into force on Dec. 1, 2019.

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Open letter calling for a national strategy for the collection of disaggregated health data

Published on: August 17, 2021

Burchill, John, Anne Clennet, Charles Dent, Raj Dir, Kasari Govender, Christine Hanson, Marie-Claude Landry, Lesley McCullough, Carey Majid, Marc-Alain Mallet, and Brenda Picard, Open letter calling for a national strategy for the collection of disaggregated health data, June 5, 2020.

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• COVID-19

Policy statement: COVID-19 pandemic

Published on: July 16, 2021

This statement is intended to provide guidance to employers, landlords, service providers and each of us as individuals about how to ensure that human rights are protected and balanced against urgent public health priorities.

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• COVID-19

A human rights approach to proof of vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published on: July 12, 2021

This document calls for a human rights-based response to the pandemic, even as more people get vaccinated and transmission rates drop.

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• Discrimination
• General

Disaggregated data: Summary of recommendations to prevent harm to communities

Published on: June 28, 2021

In the fall of 2020, BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC) released a report with recommendations on how to collect, store, use and disclose disaggregated data in a way that furthers the aims of equity and justice without reinforcing marginalization.

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• Poverty

Adding “social condition” as a protected ground to B.C.’s Human Rights Code

Published on: January 22, 2021

This brief provides an overview of increased instances of discrimination on the basis of social condition within the current context of COVID-19, as well as previous reports and consultations that have documented the extent of this systemic discrimination.

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