On International Human Rights Day, the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and Pivot Legal Society are renewing calls for an amendment to the BC Human Rights Code to include protections based on social condition.

TJ Felix is the Community Educator at Pivot Legal Society.

Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a unanimous decision on R v Zora; a case about bail breaches in which Pivot intervened with help from Vancouver-based criminal defence lawyer David Fai.

Police across the province are endangering lives and working in direct conflict with health authorities

Because of stigma, our social safety net is often inaccessible to people who need it.

"Conditions of release" are imprisoning vulnerable communities in a cycle of harm that produced criminality

Stigma disqualifies people and groups from social acceptance and social equity

There are very real and direct health, safety, and human rights implications that arise where services are not available or accessible to marginalized people.