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

Event Rights Talk: Youth and Civil Liberties Conference

Posted on December 7, 2018

Topic: Access to Justice, Citizenship, Civilian Rights, Democratic Rights, Discrimination, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Human Rights, Immigration, Police Accountability, Poverty & Rights, Protest Rights

News Release Press Release: BCCLA reacts to Vernon City Council Plan to Regulate Shopping Carts

Posted on August 23, 2018

Topic: Human Rights, Poverty & Rights

News Release Human rights groups call for increased welfare rates, protection of the right to food

Posted on October 20, 2016

Topic: Human Rights, Poverty & Rights

Document Hungry for Justice: Advancing a Right to Food for Children in BC

Posted on March 7, 2016

Topic: Children's Rights, Human Rights, Poverty & Rights

Type: Reports & Books

News Release BCCLA reacts to decision in Abbotsford homeless rights case

Posted on October 21, 2015

Topic: Human Rights, Poverty & Rights

Post Abbotsford trial comes to a close

Posted on September 30, 2015

Topic: Human Rights, Poverty & Rights

News Release Media advisory: BC Supreme Court to hear Abbotsford homeless rights case

Posted on June 28, 2015

Topic: Access to Justice, Free Association, Human Rights, Human Rights, Poverty & Rights

Document British Columbia/Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors v. City of Abbotsford

Posted on June 26, 2015

Topic: Democratic Rights, Poverty & Rights

Type: Legal Cases

Event A right to food in Canada: Vancouver community forum

Posted on June 1, 2015

Topic: Children's Rights, Human Rights, Poverty & Rights