November 2, 2011
The Newfoundland and Labrador Housing and Homelessness Network (NLHHN) is a group of community-based service providers, municipal, provincial and federal departments and agencies, and representatives...
Keywords: Homelessness, homelessness in Newfoundland, Housing, service providers, Campaigns and initiatives, Newfoundland, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education
June 15, 2011
This paper investigates the extent to which inequalities in parents' socioeconomic status affects young adult educational attainment. It finds no evidence that the gap in college completion has...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Education, Reports and documents, United States
June 15, 2011
Compared to the Canadian-born, immigrants are under-represented among Canada’s homeless population, when their decline in economic wellbeing is considered alongside their relative absence in homeless...
Keywords: Homelessness, Immigrants and Refugees, Reports and documents, All of Canada
June 15, 2011
This article compares heterosexual and sexual minority street-involved youth across a number of sociodemographic, risk and current mental health, victimization and delinquency measures with a...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Homelessness, LGBTQ, Women, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 15, 2011
In London, Ontario, discharges from psychiatric wards to shelters or NFA occurred 194 times per year. This discovery led to the creation of a pilot project that provided immediate access to a housing...
Keywords: Homelessness, Mental Health, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 15, 2011
Many Canadian families are finding it difficult to make ends meet even when they work long hours. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reported that Canadian families in the bottom half...
Keywords: Housing, Workers' Rights, Reports and documents, All of Canada
June 15, 2011
Calgary’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness (10 Year Plan) was launched in 2007 by Calgary’s Committee to End Homelessness and in January of 2008, the Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF) was chosen to...
Keywords: Alberta, Homelessness, Reports and documents
June 13, 2011
The Ontario Provincial Government has appointed a commission to review the income security system, including social assistance. The commission's mandate is to develop a plan to reform the system. As...
Keywords: Disability, Government Policy, isac, Organizing, social assistance review, Welfare, Women, Manuals and guides, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 13, 2011
The Income Security Advocacy Centre is hosting video recordings of a symposium held by ISAC and the Social Assistance Action Committee in March 2011 on how the Social Assistance Review commission...
Keywords: Disability, isac, ontario works, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Ontario, Multimedia, Reports and documents
June 13, 2011
ISAC and the Ontario community legal clinic system’s Social Assistance Action Committee (SAAC) held a roundtable discussion on May 30, 2011, to explore the issue of how assistance is delivered in...
Keywords: Disability, Government Policy, isac, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 13, 2011
This page at the Income Security Advocacy Centre provides information on and a link to, a letter sent to commissioners of the Social Assistance Review in Ontario, urging them to consider issues of...
Keywords: Disability, isac, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Women, Ontario, Reports and documents
May 30, 2011
CCPA has a report, Negotiating Without a Floor: Unionized Worker Exclusion from BC Employment Standards which examines a lesser- known change to Bill 48 - Employment Standards Act, 2002, namely the...
Keywords: Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 30, 2011
The Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance has replace its BCEA manual for a new kind of information provider, entitled, the MEIA Online Resource. You can also access the Ministry Reports and...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Disability, Welfare, British Columbia, Government information, Reports and documents
May 30, 2011
The Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) provides specialized legal aid for British Columbians. The CLAS website publications page has links to a numbers of useful resources including A Lay...
Keywords: Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 30, 2011
Working on the Edge, a report created by the Workers' Action Centre, documents the experiences of workers in low-paid temporary agency and contract jobs where employers fail to meet minimum labour...
Keywords: Workers' Rights, Ontario, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
The Electronic Legal Aid Newsletter (ELAN) is published 9 times year by the Legal Services Society to keep individuals and organizations who help low-income people deal with the legal system up to...
Keywords: Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
The Income Security Advocacy Centre has more details on the new Ontario Child Benefit that was announced in the provincial budget on March 23rd. A Question and Answer sheet on the OCB as well as...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Ontario, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
In response to requests the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has developed a new publication series called The (real) Bottom Line (in PDF). These 8-page "primers" on key economic and social...
Keywords: Government Policy, Organizing, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
Legal Services Society of BC has an online archive of Consumer Law publications.
Keywords: Debt and Consumer Law, Legal Research, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
The Office of the Commissioner of Review Tribunals (CPP/OAS) has added a database Old Age Security legal information, such as case summaries, conditions of personal information disclosure, general...
Keywords: Legal Research, Seniors and Elders, Government information, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is a US based organization acting as a legal resource for the international human rights community.
Keywords: Human Rights, Legal Research, Reports and documents, Research and education, United States
May 29, 2011
The Volunteer Legal Advocacy Programs (VLAP) has provides advocacy resources. The booklets are intended to help members who are in need of information in the following areas: disability insurance,...
Keywords: Disability, Legal Research, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
A number of publications have been updated - including information pamphlets on CPP benefits, WCB and EI. There are also a few new publications - all available on the Community Legal Education...
Keywords: Legal Research, Ontario, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
The Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) has released some research publications on low income in Canada. The reports cover such things as income levels for immigrants, prevalence of low income...
Keywords: Poverty Research, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
Poverty and Human Rights Online Library is a searchable database of materials related to social and economic rights. It includes texts of relevant international human rights treaties, Canadian and...
Keywords: Human Rights, Reports and documents, All of Canada, Research and education
May 29, 2011
CanLII, a searchable database of Provincial, Territorial and Federal statutes and regulations and Provincial and Supreme court decisions too vast to list is available as an online resource. From the...
Keywords: Legal Research, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
Legal Services Society produced the publications in this directory for Aboriginal People dealing with the justice system in BC.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 25, 2011
Cet ouvrage aborde le régime canadien d'assurance-chômage sous l'angle des droits qu'il reconnaît aux sans-emploi et sous la forme d'une analyse de l'évolution historique du régime. Il fait suite à...
Keywords: Unemployment, Workers' Rights, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 25, 2011
A phenomenal resource, setup to be a repository for information on microcredit - in the broad meaning of the term to include microcredit, community development, NGOs, poverty, environment,...
Keywords: Poverty Research, Reports and documents, Research and education, International
May 25, 2011
The International Poverty Pact was drawn up at a Summit in Copenhagen in 1995. It calls for an international action to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce overall poverty.
Keywords: Human Rights, Poverty Research, Reports and documents, International
May 25, 2011
This website provides worldwide information on refugees, including refugee reports.
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Organizations, Reports and documents, International, United States
May 25, 2011
Human Rights Watch monitors human rights internationally. their website has news, information and stories about international human rights abuses.
Keywords: Human Rights, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education, International
May 25, 2011
The Human Rights Library, housed by the University of Minnesota, has a lot of information on Human Rights issues both within the United States and Internationally.
Keywords: Human Rights, Directories, Reports and documents, Research and education, International
May 19, 2011
The Fourth World Conference on Women (1995), a United Nations initiative, has a platform for action on women and poverty.
Keywords: un, united nations, Women, women, Reports and documents, International
April 14, 2011
Pivot Legal works to advance the interests and improving the lives of marginalized persons through law reform, legal education, and strategic legal action.
Pivot’s mandate is to use the law to...
Keywords: child welfare, child welfare, criminalization, criminalization, Downtown Eastside, Downtown Eastside, Homelessness, homelessness, homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, Organizing, policing, policing, sex workers, sex workers, social change, social change, social justice, social justice, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education, Services
April 8, 2011
The Canadian Council for Refugees is a non-profit umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees in Canada and around the world and to the settlement of refugees and...
Keywords: immigrant rights, immigrant rights, Immigrants and Refugees, newcomers, newcomers, refugee reform, refugee reform, refugee rights, refugee rights, Campaigns and initiatives, Factsheets and FAQs, Organizations, Reports and documents, All of Canada, Research and education
March 30, 2011
The Nunavut Roundtable for Poverty Reduction brings together those who fight to reduce poverty in our territory.
The Nunavut Roundtable for Poverty Reduction was created in the summer of 2010 as a...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Inuit, Organizing, poverty reduction, Poverty Research, Campaigns and initiatives, Nunavut, Reports and documents
November 25, 2010
The YWCA is seeing a growing number of mothers without legal status, many of whom have fled their relationships because of abuse. While trying to rebuild their lives and still adapting to a new...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Family, family law, family law, Immigrants and Refugees, immigration law, immigration law, immigration status, immigration status, Legal Info (PLEI), mothers, mothers, non-status, non-status, service providers, service providers, sponsorship, sponsorship, Women, British Columbia, Manuals and guides, Reports and documents
November 23, 2010
The B.C. Human Rights Coalition is a charitable non-profit community based organization that seeks to promote and strengthen human rights throughout B.C. and Canada.
The Human Rights Clinic is a...
Keywords: Human Rights, human rights clinic, British Columbia, Reports and documents, Services
November 18, 2010
Research, presentations and reports from the Bed Bug Symposium 2010 Conference Proceedings.
Keywords: bed bugs, Housing, Reports and documents, All of Canada, Research and education
