Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
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.
Behind Closed Doors: Exposing Migrant Care Worker Exploitation During COVID-19
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This report, which compiles hundreds of surveys filled out by migrant care workers during COVID-19, tells a story of entrapment, long hours, and thousands of dollars in stolen wages. It shows the enormous power employers have to abuse and exploit migrant care workers, and the ways in which migrant women are refusing to be silent.
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.
Filipino Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 and the Importance of Race-Based Analysis
This resource highlights why it is important for any analysis of COVID-19 to take race into account. It is crucial for policymakers to get race-based data to understand the risks that different communities face when it comes to COVID-19; as well as the ways in which migrant workers like those in the Filipino community are impacted.
A Pathway to End Violence Against Migrant Sex Workers
This guide offers practical information for service providers working with migrant sex workers who have experienced, or may experience violence, discrimination or other forms of abuse.
Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
This report addresses the situation of violence against Métis women and girls in Canada. Métis women face a unique form of marginalization and discrimination; first, as Indigenous peoples; second, as Métis—the “invisible” among Aboriginal people; and third, as women.