• Poverty

Brief: Responding to homeless encampments

Published on: September 13, 2023

Homeless encampments are some of the most visible evidence of the failure by all levels of government to protect the human right to adequate housing. In B.C., recent years have […]

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• Hate & racism

Report: From hate to hope (Inquiry into hate in the pandemic)

Published on: March 13, 2023

In August 2021, BC’s Human Rights Commissioner launched an Inquiry into the rise of hate in B.C. during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2023, the Commissioner released her findings and recommendations.

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• General

Budget submission 2023/24–2025/26

Published on: October 21, 2022

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

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• General

Finding our roots: Growing in community: Annual Report 2021/22 and Service Plan 2022/23–2024/25

Published on: September 26, 2022

Our Annual Report (2021/2022) tells the story of our work and outcomes resulting from the previous fiscal year.

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• 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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