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Presentation to Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
AccessBC | June 20, 2020 - Presentation on behalf of AccessBC for British Columbia’s 2020 Provincial Budget Consultations.
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Now What? Why YLIP and What's Next
Omprakash | April 19, 2020 - I applied to YLIP because I needed a change, but I don’t think I realized just how much change I was going to get.
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Is Social Entrepreneurship the Solution? Funding LGBTQ+ Small Business
Omprakash | April 19, 2020 - Guyana’s LGBTQ+ organizations have been pushing for training and funding to help un- and under-employed LGBTQ+ folks start their own businesses.
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LGBTQ+ Rights and Colonial Legacies: Looking at History in Guyana and At Home
Omprakash | January 27, 2020 - The control over specific intimate acts that colonial-era anti-buggery laws represent is indistinguishable from the wider control over identity and morality that colonizers sought to impose.
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Reproductive Coercion: What it is, and How to Stop it
Canadian Women’s Foundation | January 14, 2020 - One type of gender-based violence is reproductive coercion. Learn what it is and what we can do to address and change it.
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Presentation to Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
AccessBC | June 20, 2020 - Presentation on behalf of AccessBC for British Columbia’s 2020 Provincial Budget Consultations.
Now What? Why YLIP and What’s Next
Omprakash | April 19, 2020 - I applied to the Young Lawyers International Program because I needed a change, but I don’t think I realized just how much change I was going to get.
Is Social Entrepreneurship the Solution?
Omprakash | April 19, 2020 - In Guyana, one of the biggest challenges that faces the LGBTQ+ community is access to employment.
LGBTQ+ Rights and Colonial Legacies
Omprakash | January 27, 2020 - One of Canada’s major policy priorities in how it currently approaches international development is what it calls “inclusive governance.”
Guyana on the Verge of Change
Omprakash | October 29, 2019 - On my 10-minute walk to work, I make sure to keep my eyes forward and stay ready to step off the narrow shoulder to avoid cars and speeding mini-buses, and hope I’m not sweating off all my bug spray before I get to the office.
Why is Parliament still a boys’ club?
iPolitics | January 28, 2015 - Institutional structures and systemic discrimination mean women are still underrepresented in Canada’s national politics.
Reproductive Coercion: What it is, and How to Stop it
Canadian Women’s Foundation | January 14, 2020 - Thanks to activists who have sounded alarms about campus sexual assault and workplace harassment, conversations about gender-based violence are at an all-time high.
Too Few Canadian Schools Prepared to Deal with Sex Assaults
The Tyee | February 13, 2015 - Universities aren't even subject to reporting requirements, much less universal standards.
Torture, segregation — and a government in denial
iPolitics | January 20, 2015 - Ashley Smith’s death should have been a wake-up call — an impossible-to-ignore signal that Canadian prisons were failing their mentally-ill inmates.
How ‘open government’ became a bad joke
iPolitics | November 19, 2014 - Canada’s Access to Information Act came into being in 1983. At the time, it was a cutting-edge piece of legislation, giving Canadians brand-new tools to learn what their government was getting up to.
The Scope of the Problem
Omprakash | December 19, 2019 - Some of the best data SASOD has on human rights violations in Guyana is the data we gather from our own files, when people come to our office seeking assistance in dealing with human rights violations.
The country that dumbed itself to death
iPolitics | February 5, 2015 - With their typical respect for Parliament and the democratic process, the Conservatives decided to fundamentally alter the way we collect information about our country.
Why Does Harper Keep Spinning Our Missing Women Tragedy?
The Tyee | August 27, 2014 - Death of Tina Fontaine in Manitoba is only the latest example
This prostitution law is about protecting votes, not women
iPolitics | December 9, 2014 - On Dec. 6, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act received royal assent.
Millions for tribute, peanuts for defence
iPolitics | January 6, 2015 - There’s a joke about government budgets: A million dollars here, a million dollars there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
The transgender rights bill: A good idea, undone by bad politics
iPolitics | December 2, 2014 - Senate reform has been a key Conservative plank since the distant days when Conservatives could also be Progressives.
Canada’s Maternal Health Aid Marred by Cheap Politics
The Tyee | October 10, 2013 - Harper’s big pledge does nothing for the 50,000 women dying annually from unsafe abortions.
The Hill has a sexism problem. What are we doing about it?
iPolitics | November 12, 2014 - Change is painful. Change means uprooting assumptions, breaking apart misinformation and digging up buried truths.