Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Evaluating Canada’s Sex Work Laws: The Case for Repeal
This report provides a history of the litigation that struck down previous sex work laws in Canada and the approach taken in drafting current legislation. It gives an overview of the impacts that current laws are having on sex workers across Canada and why the law is unconstitutional.
Equity is Safer: Human Rights Considerations for Policing Reform in British Columbia
The BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner’s (BCOHRC) written submission, “Equity is Safer: Human rights considerations for policing reform in British Columbia,” includes expert analysis of data from five police jurisdictions that reveals disturbing racial disparities in policing activities across B.C.
Resetting Normal: Gender, Intersectional & Structural Violence and Leadership
This report argues for the development of a holistic, intersectional leadership development conduit, combined with systemic reforms in governance models, as necessary for developing the conditions for meaningful civic participation and leadership of women, transgender, and Two-Spirit people.
The Missing Story of #MeToo: Sexual Violence by Law Enforcement Agents
Although studies show that sexual violence is the second most frequently reported form of police misconduct, it is not frequently talked about. What does sexual violence by police look like?
Police Sexual Violence: What We Know & What Can We Do About It
This background details the reality of sexual violence by U.S law enforcement officers – including local and state police, ICE agents and Border Patrol, school resource officers, federal law enforcement agents, probation and parole officers; an issue that otherwise remains shrouded in silence.
Police Responses to Domestic Violence: A Fact Sheet
A U.S-based factsheet on police responses to domestic violence, arguing that police responses to domestic violence calls are primarily sites of physical and sexual violence, and neglect.
The Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada: A feminist analysis
The Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada: A feminist analysis” looks at the alt-right using an intersectional feminist analysis and focuses on the context in Canada, from its historic roots to its continued proliferation, and outlines collective actions that we can all take to counter the alt-right movement today.
Canada: Equality and Non-Discrimination with a Focus on Indigenous Women and Girls and Intersecting Forms of Discrimination
This report details the Union of BC Indian Chiefs submission to the the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women with an emphasis on how Indigenous women and girls living on Turtle Island experience destructive and intersecting forms of gender and racial discrimination that have been fostered, strengthened, and protected by colonial structures, institutions, and legal orders.