What we do
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Litigation
West Coast LEAF advances gender equality through our involvement in equality rights cases at all levels of court. Read More
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Law Reform
Day-to-day equality issues are affected by legislation. West Coast LEAF tracks existing and proposed legislation and responds to governments when it affects gender equality and human rights. Read More
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Education
One of the best ways to protect Charter and human rights is to educate people on how to use them. Read More
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Letter to the City of Vancouver about sexualized violence in the hospitality industry
West Coast LEAF wrote to the Mayor and Council of the City of Vancouver in support of a motion Read More
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Letter urging BC to invest in a rights-based framework for survivors of sexual assault
Commencing in 2016, West Coast LEAF partnered with the YWCA-Metro Vancouver on a project aimed at identifying strategies to reduce barriers Read More
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2020 BC Budget Submissions
In June 2019, West Coast LEAF made submissions to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services urging Read More
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Open letter urging the Province to overhaul the outdated BC Mental Health Act
On June 26, 2019, the Province announced a 10-year strategy to transform our mental health and addictions system. The Read More
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The overdose crisis isn’t gender neutral
In 2016, the BC government declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. Since then, more than 3,600 British Read More
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Recognizing Multiple Legal Systems: Decolonizing our Understandings of “the” Law with Val Napoleon
There’s no such thing as “the” law. We live in a world where multiple legal systems operate simultaneously, but Read More