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The Baseline Recommendations Database is a living database maintained by BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC) that allows you to search human rights recommendations focused on British Columbia.

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This database currently contains nearly 1,700 recommendations sourced from over 70 reports on human rights issues relevant to British Columbia. Each search result contains information about the recommended human rights action, the report it came from, the groups affected by the recommendation, the target audience called on to respond to the recommendation and, where relevant, the location that the recommendation refers to.

You can search for recommendations from across all reports included in the database based on key criteria, or you can opt to view all recommendations associated with a single report. The database does not contain information about the implementation status of individual recommendations. Confirmation of the implementation status of any specific recommendation is a complex process that is subject to interpretation. For information about the implementation status of any specific recommendation, we recommend you contact the organization or author responsible for the report and/or the duty bearer* or body responsible for implementing the recommendation.

*”Duty bearer” here refers to persons or organizations with particular obligations or responsibility to respect, uphold and obey human rights laws. For example, under the B.C. Human Rights Code, duty bearers include employers, landlords and service providers.
BCOHRC’s Baseline Recommendations Database is for community organizations, advocates, researchers or passionate individuals working to learn more about human rights issues in our province. This database is also for all levels of government and decision makers who can use it to see more easily what recommendations have been made in areas they are responsible for. The aim of the database is to serve as a resource that can help these groups implement recommendations and take action to move the needle forward on human rights in British Columbia.
The database currently contains recommendations sourced from reports based on the project’s inclusion and exclusion criteria. Included reports must be published after 2018 and be about human rights issues in British Columbia.

If you would like to learn more about the inclusion and exclusion criteria, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page. If you would like to submit a publication for consideration for this database, please fill out this form and our research team will be in touch! Please note that as the database is updated quarterly, there may be some delay until you hear back from our research team.

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Recommendation 30: Educate employers about s. 42. Education should highlight where a fair consideration of Indigenous applicants (for example, strongly weighing Indigenous knowledge and experience) does not require an exemption.

Expanding Our Vision: Cultural Equality and Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights

Group/author:
BC Human Rights Tribunal, Cedar and Sage Law

Year:
2020

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Category and theme:

Decolonization and Indigenous rights
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Education
Audience:

Government of British Columbia
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Independent offices of the Legislature
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Private sector
Groups affected:

Indigenous Peoples

Recommendation 1: #ReturnOurAncestors! The Canadian Museum Association and its partner institutions must uphold its responsibilities to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, and the promises they made to the AFN, to digitize and make private archives and holdings accessible for transparency. In no uncertain terms, museums must repatriate the bodies of Indigenous ancestors. There needs to be immediate expert and Indigenous-led audits of collections to assess what exists in collections; the primary goal being to find sensitive materials such as bodies, which museologists quietly know to exist within many of Canada’s major institutions.

A Culture of Exploitation: “Reconciliation” and the Institutions of Canadian Art

Group/author:
Yellowhead Institute

Year:
2020

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Category and theme:

Decolonization and Indigenous rights
Audience:

Faith and cultural groups
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Non-profits and community organizations
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Private sector
Groups affected:

Indigenous Peoples

Recommendation 21: “Tourism and Marketing Strategy.” More specifically for Chinatown’s Marketing Strategy, we recommend actions including measures to build social and cultural relationships between traditional and non-traditional businesses. As our research has shown, there are missed intra-neighbourhood economic opportunities due to parallel and segregated economic and social systems. Marketing opportunities within the neighbourhood to businesses across cultural lines would contribute to neighbourhood connectivity. The external aspects of the Tourism and Marketing Strategy would also benefit from a more socially cohesive business environment in Chinatown.

Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report

Group/author:
hua foundation

Year:
2018

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Category and theme:

Discrimination and hate
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Employment
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Other
Audience:

Municipal governments
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Private sector
Groups affected:

Living in urban communities
,
Racialized people

Recommendation 19: “Tenant recruitment strategy” could benefit from selective recruitment of businesses that would contribute to the Chinatown character that many of our business interviewees and consumers have identified as ideal additions to the neighbourhood. These were often described as “Chinese businesses” but further work would need to be completed to assess neighbourhood fit in regards to socio-economics and accessibility of these business.

Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report

Group/author:
hua foundation

Year:
2018

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Category and theme:

Other
Audience:

Private sector
Groups affected:

Living in urban communities
,
Racialized people

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