The COVID-19 Pandemic and Human Rights
CASHRA members, human rights groups, experts and communities have come together in an unprecedented way during this crisis to provide recommendations to governments, employers and the public on how to ensure human rights are protected as we respond to this pandemic.
Please refer to the Human Rights Commission in your jurisdiction for more information.
Alberta Human Rights Commission
- COVID-19 and Human Rights
- Update: COVID-19 and Human Rights (Commission Service)
British Columbia – Office of the Human Rights Commission of BC
- Disaggregated Data Collection in British Columbia: The Grandmother Perspective
- COVID-19 Web Page (Commissioner’s Message, Full Policy Statement, Survey, FAQs)
- Domestic Violence During COVID-19: Representative for Children and Youth and Human Rights Commissioner Call for Increased Visibility of Supports and Resources
- A Call for Human Rights Oversight to the COVID 19 Pandemic
Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Statement – COVID-19 Putting Disability Rights at Risk
- Statement – Canada’s social and economic recovery efforts must take a feminist approach
- Statement – Release low-risk inmates to slow spread of COVID-19 in prisons
- Statement – Racism in response to COVID-19 harms us all
- Statement – Inequality amplified by COVID-19 crisis
- Statement – COVID-19
Manitoba Human Rights Commission
- COVID 19 and the Rights of Students with Disabilities – Letter to Minister of Education
- Guideline – Discrimination based on COVID-19
- Fact Sheet — COVID-19 and The Human Rights Code
- A human rights based approach to the COVID-19 pandemic: Principles and Actions
New Brunswick Human Rights Commission
Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission
Northwest Territories Human Rights Commission
Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
- Wearing Non-medical Masks: Guidelines for Individuals and Organizations
- Policy Statement on COVID-19 Pandemic
Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Webinar: Human Rights Approach to COVID-19 – OHRC and Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA)
- Human Rights Approach at the Independent Long-term Care COVID-19 Commission – Letter to Hon. Associate Chief Justice Frank N. Marrocco
- Letter to Minister Elliott on Potential human rights issues in the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 response
- Canada must put human rights at the centre of its COVID-19 response – OpEd in the Toronto Star
- OHRC issues policy on government’s human rights obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Policy Statement on COVID-19
- Q and A on COVID-19 and the Human Rights Code.
Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission
Québec – Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse
- The Mobile Coronavirus exposure notification application should respect privacy and equality rights (full text available in French)
- Obligation to wear a mask in public settings: The Commission’s position
- Clarifications regarding the obligation to wear a mask
- Tickets to homeless youth: how can you isolate yourself when living on the streets? (full text available in French)
- Rights of the elderly: changes needed in supervision and monitoring (full text available in French)
- Unfortunately, racism does not take a break in times of crisis: people of Asian origin are particularly targeted
- Human Rights and COVID-19 (full text available in French)
Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
- Hate Speech: an impetus that leads to hate crime
- Mental Health and Human Rights during COVID-19
- Message about Commission Service