====== British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner ======

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**British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner** is a Canadian government administration body based in [[canada:british_columbia:Vancouver]], [[canada:British Columbia]]. The current Human Rights Commission for the Province of [[British Columbia]] is [[Kasari Govender]], who began her five-year term on September 3, 2019.((//Our team.// BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner. Retrieved March 8, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.03.08-060125/https://bchumanrights.ca/about-us/our-team/))

===== History =====

==== COVID-19 ====

On November 5, 2020, Human Rights Commissioner [[Kasari Govender]] published a guidance document titled "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191330/https://bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/BCOHRC_Nov2020_Mask-Policy-Guidance_Original-Version.pdf|A human rights approach to mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic]]." This document was "updated over time to reflect changing circumstances," with revised versions published on [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220201203259/https://bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/BCOHRC_Nov2020_Mask-Policy-Guidance_Update-201123.pdf|November 23]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191255/https://bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/BCOHRC_Nov2020_Mask-Policy-Guidance_Update-201210.pdf|December 10, 2020]], and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220201203257/https://bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/BCOHRC_Nov2020_Mask-Policy-Guidance_Update-210423.pdf|April 23]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191344/https://bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/BCOHRC_Nov2020_Mask-Policy-Guidance_Update-210728.pdf|July 22]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221006014455/https://bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/Mask-Policy-Guidance-Sept-2021-Update-Final.pdf|September 29, 2021]].((//A human rights approach to mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic.// BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner. Retrieved May 15, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.05.15-191203/https://bchumanrights.ca/publications/mask/))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://covidtruthinitiative.ca/en/Organizations/Government-of-British-Columbia/Office-of-the-Human-Rights-Commissioner|COVID Truth Initiative]]
  * [[https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanrights4bc/|LinkedIn]]
  * [[https://bchumanrights.ca/|Website]]