BCCLA

BCCLA focuses on the relationship between people and the state, and the ways that action by the state can promote or prevent the full protection and enjoyment of these rights and liberties. We are committed to the protection of inherent human dignity and strive to achieve a society in which people benefit from the meaningful and substantively equal enjoyment of Charter-protected rights and liberty interests. We recognize that liberty, dignity and equality are mutually-reinforcing. We are a non-partisan non-profit organization... The BCCLA works to promote, defend, sustain, and extend civil liberties and human rights in BC and Canada. We recognize that such rights are fundamental and inalienable for the well-being of human society. Among these liberties and rights are those which have been embodied in such documents as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, the American Declaration of Independence, the British, American and..

Also known as: British Columbia Civil Liberties Association

Primary location: Vancouver