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Shelagh Day
Shelagh Day is President of the Canadian Human Rights Reporter and Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action. She was BC’s first Human Rights Officer, and the Director of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Follow Shelagh on Twitter
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Yes Mr. Harper It Is A Sociological Phenomenon
This piece originally appeared on Blogging for Equality. Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights Issues Breakthrough Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls The Inter‑American…
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Strengthening Human Rights
Why British Columbia Needs a Human Rights Commission Download 1.36 MB73 pages The absence of a human rights commission has resulted in a gaping hole…
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From discrimination against temporary foreign workers to sexual harassment, there’s no shortage of issues a human rights commission could tackle
British Columbia is the only province in Canada that does not have a Human Rights Commission. That makes us the weakest province when it comes…
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Take the welfare time limit off the books
The Government of British Columbia now says that, over the next year, only 339 people will be affected by the 24-month time limit on welfare…
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UN singles out BC Government on women’s rights
BC is not meeting its obligations to women under international human rights law. That was the clear message of the United Nations Committee on the…
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Who’s in contempt over the Woodward’s squat?
This is Affordable Housing Week in BC–a week dedicated to ending homelessness. Thankfully, two weeks ago, the BC Housing Corporation dropped proceedings against the 54…
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Rolling Back Human Rights in BC
An Assessment of Bill 53 – the Government of British Columbia’s Draft Human Rights Legislation Download 156.51 KB23 pages
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Proposed human rights legislation gets failing grade
For the second time in twenty years, the Government of British Columbia has decided to abolish its Human Rights Commission. If the draft legislation set…
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Human rights plunge into the past
Human rights in British Columbia may be about to plunge backwards by twenty years. In 1983 Bill Bennett abolished the Human Rights Commission, fired all…
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