Author: Clicklaw Editor

Do you use ‘Your Welfare Rights’ guide? Your feedback is important!

The broader context

If you are one of the many users of the popular LSS publication Your Welfare Rights: A Guide to BC Employment and Assistance, the Legal Services Society would very much value your feedback! 

YourWelfareRightsGuideA short survey is available here. Please complete this quick questionnaire by Monday, November 14, 2011. 

Although LSS is revising the guide primarily to incorporate changes in the law, they are also taking this opportunity to solicit brief but important feedback from their users.

According to Alex Peel, the Publications Development Coordinator, LSS will be collecting more extensive feedback on the entire publication in the next year. Please feel free to email Alex if you have any questions or information to share about this or any other LSS publication.

2011 CEDAW Report Card by West Coast LEAF now posted

New on Clicklaw

West Coast LEAF has added the 2011 CEDAW Report Card to the Reform & Research section of Clicklaw.

This report was produced by the West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)cedaw-reportcard'11 with input from various community agencies in BC. It looks at the government’s performance against the international standards of women’s rights and freedoms outlined in the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

The stated goal of West Coast LEAF’s CEDAW Report Card project is to raise public awareness about the shortcomings and successes of BC in meeting its international obligations on women’s rights, and to advocate for adequate responses to the CEDAW Committee’s concerns.