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PHRC Intervenes to Support Homeless People
The Poverty and Human Rights Centre is intervening to to support homeless people in the Tent City Case. The appeal will be heard in the British Columbia Court of Appeal on June 10 and 11, 2009. The PHRC was granted leave to intervene on April 3, 2009, by Groberman J.A. of the BCCA. The PHRC [...]
Also posted in Factums Tagged homelessness, tent city
Victoria (City) v. Adams: Advancing the Right to Shelter
Victoria (City) v. Adams: Advancing the Right to Shelter is an important new B.C. case about social and economic rights. The issue in this case is whether a City bylaw which required homeless people to remove tents and any overhead protection, while sleeping in Cridge Park, violated their right to life, liberty and security of [...]
Also posted in Law Sheets Tagged advocacy, economic rights, homelessness
Inaction and Non-compliance: British Columbia’s approach to Women’s Inequality
Submission of the B.C. CEDAW Group to the United nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
on the occasion of the Committee’s review of Canada’s 6th & 7th reports.
The B.C. CEDAW Group is a coalition of women’s non-governmental and non-profit British Columbia organizations that are committed to advancing the equality interests of women and [...]
Also posted in Submissions to UN Tagged BC CEDAW, British Columbia, United Nations, women's inequality
The Role of International Social and Economic Rights in the Interpretation of Domestic Law in Canada
This Law Sheet, produced by the Poverty and Human Rights Centre, is concerned with the role that international human rights law can play in the interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other laws in Canada. It is intended to assist lawyers in their advocacy work before courts and tribunals. It is [...]
Also posted in Law Sheets Tagged advocacy, domestic human rights law, economic rights, human rights law, social rights, United Nations
Human rights treaty implementation: The Consensus on Canada
This Law Sheet identifies overlapping areas of human rights treaty obligation in which
various international monitoring bodies have found Canada’s performance to be
unsatisfactory. The extent of the consensus regarding Canada’s non-compliance with its
human rights obligations in particular areas, that exists among the international monitoring
bodies applying different treaties, serves to highlight some of the work that Canadian
governments [...]
Also posted in Law Sheets Tagged Canadian government, human rights treaties
Human Rights Denied: Single Mothers on Social Assistance
Human Rights Denied documents the very difficult conditions in which single mothers
are raising their children in British Columbia today. It is a call for the Government of British Columbia to abandon its current policies – because they are a cruel failure.
Human Rights Denied: Single Mothers on Social Assistance
Also posted in Articles & Reports Tagged human rights, single mothers, social assistance, welfare
Gosselin v. Attorney General (Quebec): Autonomy with a Vengeance (2004)
In Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney General), the first poverty case under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reach the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court ruled against the applicant, Louise Gosselin and the class of social assistance recipients she represented. The decision is deeply divided, and the majority decision turns on a finding that the evidence [...]
Also posted in Articles & Reports Tagged Charter, Gosselin v. A.G. Québec, social assistance
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––the rule intended to limit “employable” welfare recipients to two-years of support during any five year period.
On Friday, the Government created a new exemption––the 25th. Now those who follow their employment [...]
Also posted in Commentary Tagged British Columbia, welfare
Letter to the Prime Minister and BC Premier on welfare time limits
A letter written to Prime Minister Paul Martin and Premier Gordon Campbell, endorsed by 137 organizations, asking them to act immediately, together and separately, to ensure that legislation which imposes a twenty-four month time limit on eligibility for welfare in B.C. is rescinded before April 1, 2004, and that no similar provision is implemented in B.C. or any other [...]
Also posted in Submissions to Government Tagged British Columbia, human rights law, social rights, welfare
Nothing to report: Submission of the B.C. CEDAW Group