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Additions to the B.C. Human Rights Code
Recommendation 3:
Engage in an audit of provincial and municipal laws and policies to identify potential discrimination based on social condition.
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Engage in a provincial education campaign to ensure that all people in BC who may suffer discrimination on the basis of social condition, and all people in BC who are prohibited under the Code from discriminating on the basis of social condition are aware of the change.
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Recommendation 14:
Amend the provincial Residential Tenancy Act to cover all housing and to strengthen tenants rights. Amend the provincial Human Rights Code and Residential Tenancy Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of social condition including health status and drug use.
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Recommendation 106:
Amend the provincial Human Rights Code and Residential Tenancy Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of social condition including health status and drug use.
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Recommendation 26:
Amend the BC Human Rights Code and Residential Tenancy Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of social condition including class, poverty and drug use.
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Recommendation 14:
Amend the B.C. Human Rights Code, RSBC 1996, c210 to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on social condition.
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Advocate to add Indigenous identity as a protected ground to the Code. Current grounds of discrimination under the Code (including based on race, colour, ancestry or religion) do not adequately address the discrimination Indigenous Peoples report experiencing. This would send a message of inclusion and reflect the individual and collective nature of Indigenous human rights.
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Broaden the concept of human rights to incorporate international human rights principles as reflected in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and Indigenous legal traditions, in the Code and BCHRT operations and practice.
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