Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Mind the Gap: A Legislative Approach to Ending Pay Discrimination in BC
Mind the Gap: A Legislative Approach to Ending Pay Discrimination in BC is a report that evaluates the legislative tools available to the province of B.C to effectively address gender-based pay discrimination.
Girls Without Barriers: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Canada
Girls Without Barriers seeks to identify and address gaps in research regarding the needs of girls with disabilities, as well as to increase the participation of girls with disabilities and deaf girls in girl-serving programs.
COVID-19: Needs and Risk Assessment of Sex Workers in Metro Vancouver
This report is based on 95 responses from sex workers living around the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (DTES) who were surveyed about the effects of the pandemic on the lives of sex workers.
Rooting Resilience: A Needs Assessment about Women with Disabilities, Gender-Based violence, and the Potential of Peer Support Services
This report summarizes the experiences of women and girls with disabilities experiencing gender-based violence at disproportionately high rates, and provides an exploration on the potential of peer support model for services to be adapted to meet the unique needs of women and girls with disabilities.
Canada: Climate Change and the Cultural Rights of Indigenous Peoples
This is a joint submission by Indigenous Climate Action and Union of BC Indian Chiefs to Karima Bennoune, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights, on various resource development projects within Indigenous territories which is forcing more land dispossession and threatening Indigenous cultural heritage.
BC Gender Equality Report Card 2019/2020
The BC Gender Equality Report Card 2019/2020 assesses the B.C government’s progress in advancing human rights and gender justice between December 2018 and early April 2020. It explores six issue areas: access to justice; economic security; freedom from gender-based violence; health care; justice for people who are criminalized; and the rights of parents, children, and youth.
A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada: Making the Economy Work for Everyone
This report offer an intersectional perspective on how we can recover from the Covid crisis and weather difficult times in the future, while ensuring the needs of all people in Canada are considered in the formation of policy. By addressing the gendered impacts of COVID-19, we can build Canada’s economy back better.
COVID-19 BC Gender Equality Report Card
The COVID-19 BC Gender Equality Report Card evaluates the provincial government’s pandemic response in six issue areas: access to justice, economic security, freedom from gender-based violence, health care, justice for people who are criminalized, and the rights of parents, children, and youth.