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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…
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…
Preparing BC for Climate Migration
Download 2.62 MB 27 pages This paper examines often-ignored questions of climate justice: given Canada’s historical and ongoing contribution to global warming, what is our…
Time for BC to start preparing for climate migration: A question of justice
The world is already witnessing severe impacts of climate change on lives and livelihoods. Global damage from climate change and fossil fuel development was estimated…
Progress on Women’s Rights: Missing in Action
A Shadow Report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Download 708.78 KB 88 pages This report reviews Canada’s implementation of…
Time to move beyond the debate on assisted suicide
The long smouldering debate on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) flared up early this summer when on June 5 the Quebec National Assembly passed Bill 52, An…
Testing the human right to water in Detroit
In March, the beleaguered—some would say besieged—city of Detroit, Michigan announced it would begin shutting off water services to between 1,500 and 3,000 households every…
Call the inquiry
“I think, though, this is not a time to commit sociology.” —Prime Minister Stephen Harper, April 25, 2013 On August 21, facing new calls for…
Defending rights from corporate power
The case for a Peoples’ Treaty On April 24, 2013, an eight-storey building known as Rana Plaza collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100…
We need more than words to end violence against women
It’s easier to think that violence is something that happens to someone else—in a different country, a different community, a different home. But the truth…
Bangladeshis Victims of Corporate Exploitation
Western companies responsible for deaths of garment workers In April 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 garment workers and injuring…
Not Wanted On The Voyage
Migrant workers’ needs and rights continue to be ignored It had to be scary. The water was deep and choppy. Yet it was all that…
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