Poverty & Rights

Document Open Letter from the BCCLA demanding that the Vancouver Park Board withdraw its request for an injunction to remove people from CRAB Park

Posted on December 1, 2021

Topic: Poverty & Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint Letter to City of Vancouver regarding Decriminalizing Poverty

Posted on March 11, 2021

Topic: Poverty & Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

News Release Coalition of Organizations Call for End to Vancouver Police Department Trespass Prevention Program

Posted on January 28, 2021

Topic: Police Accountability, Poverty & Rights

Document Joint letter to Vancouver Park Board on by-law amendment regarding sheltering in parks

Posted on July 28, 2020

Topic: Human Rights, Poverty & Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint Letter on Sheltering in Victoria City Parks

Posted on June 23, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Harm Reduction, Poverty & Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint Call for Human Rights Oversight of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on April 15, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Patients' Rights, Poverty & Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Sex Workers' Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

News Release Civil Liberties Organization Reacts to Prime Minister Trudeau Examining ‘Emergency Measures’

Posted on March 17, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Poverty & Rights

Document Open Letter to BC Solicitor General Opposing the Community Safety Act

Posted on July 3, 2019

Topic: Access to Justice, Due Process, Human Rights, Police Accountability, Poverty & Rights, Search and Seizure

Type: Policy Submissions

News Release PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Issues Open Letter to BC Solicitor General Opposing the Community Safety Act

Posted on May 23, 2019

Topic: Civil Forfeiture, Due Process, Poverty & Rights

News Release RELEASE: BCCLA reacts to Supreme Court decision striking down mandatory victim surcharge law that results in poor people being imprisoned because they are poor

Posted on December 14, 2018

Topic: Criminal, Poverty & Rights, Sentencing