• 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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• General

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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• General

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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• 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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