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Refugee Rights are Human Rights: The United States is no safe country for refugee survivors of gender-based violence

While settling into work-and-do-everything-else-from-home mode, I’m thinking about those who must leave their homes and brave uncertain and potentially hostile terrain to secure safety and freedom from violence. Refugees

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Challenging racism in all its complex forms: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

A note from the West Coast LEAF F This! blog team We decided to go ahead and publish this month’s regularly scheduled blog post that ties into the upcoming

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Setting the Table for the 2020 Equality Breakfast

All year round at West Coast LEAF you can be sure to hear — the doorbell dinging, phones ringing, and the click, click, click of keyboards, producing a steady

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Eight Black writers to check out during Black History Month and beyond

Photo Credit: The New York Public Library on Unsplash “We need, each of us, to begin the awesome, difficult work of love; loving ourselves so that we become

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Four busted-myths about legal aid in BC: Access to justice shouldn’t be reserved for those who can afford it

No one should have to experience trying to navigate the legal system to secure safety for themselves and their children, without a lawyer, while fleeing a violent partner. But

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A Feminist Governance Framework Recipe

Academics such as Anne Orford have challenged feminists who operate at the intersections of law, equality, and social justice to imagine a rights framework that avoids reproducing the pervasive

International Migrants Day: A Long Road to Justice

December 18 is International Migrants Day, which marks an important occasion to reflect on and amplify migrant justice activism. I had the privilege of sitting down with Juliana Dalley

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Join us in asking the BC government to fully fund community-based emergency support services

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence began on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and continues until December 10, World Human Rights

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