Combatting complex inequality: the importance of an intersectional approach to Manitoba's human rights complaint process

dc.contributor.authorTorres, Aimslie
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeAnderson, Kjell (Law)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorIreland, David (Law)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-22T17:05:02Z
dc.date.available2022-02-22T17:05:02Z
dc.date.copyright2022-02-07
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.date.submitted2022-02-07T17:05:13Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineLawen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Human Rights (M.H.R.)en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I present the need and reasons why the Manitoba Human Rights Commission (MHRC) should begin to create and eventually adopt an intersectional board policy for multiple ground human rights complaints. The policy is necessary because it would unite the Commission’s approach to working on these complex complaints. The policy would guide the staff to consider the effect intersectionality has on the registered complaints during all stages of the process. In Canada, the Ontario Human Rights Commission is the only commission that has utilized an intersectional approach in 2001. I propose that Manitoba follow suit and create an approach that works in its complaint process, and a guiding policy using the OHRC’s work as a baseline. My suggestions are for the MHRC to identify the importance of intersectionality in the human rights complaint process, conduct internal staff research and trainings regarding the subject, before eventually providing this information to the public. I recommend that the staff continue to maintain open dialogue with the parties, while discussing their protected characteristics and the relationships that may occur among them. The staff should consider the possibility that the discrimination the intersectional complainants face occur because their protected characteristics exist and interrelate to each other. Supplementing this idea, an educator role should be created at the MHRC to provide training to the staff and public about intersectionality as well as for other MHRC education sessions. I acknowledge that this is not a perfect nor complete recommendation; however, I hope that it can be used as the foundation in the development of an intersectional policy at the MHRC that will adapt to better address the multiple ground complaints in the years to come.en_US
dc.description.noteMarch 2022en_US
dc.identifier.citationChicagoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/36309
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectManitoba Human Rights Commissionen_US
dc.subjectIntersectionalityen_US
dc.subjectIntersectional discriminationen_US
dc.subjectMultiple ground human rights complaintsen_US
dc.subjectHuman Rightsen_US
dc.titleCombatting complex inequality: the importance of an intersectional approach to Manitoba's human rights complaint processen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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