Priorities and Campaigns
- Housing: Improving the quality and access of housing for disenfranchised persons in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Pivot published Cracks in the Foundation: Solving the Low-Income Housing Crisis in Canada’s Poorest Neighbourhood, a 2006 report, co-authored by Pivot lawyer David Eby and Christopher Misura, outlining the housing shortage in the city.
- Sex work: Advocating for increased protection for sex workers, through the publication of a 2004 report, Voices for Dignity: A Call to End the Harms Caused by Canada’s Sex Trade Laws, edited by Pivot lawyer, Katrina Pacey. Pivot was involved in coordinating the direct participation of sex workers in a parliamentary review of the prostitution laws in 2005. The review brought together representatives from all levels of government to advocate decriminalization of the sex trade, which was followed by the release of Beyond Decriminalization: Sex Work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform, in June 2006, by Pivot.
- Policing: access to quality policing for marginalized groups as well as police accountability for any forms of misconduct through lawsuits, complaints. In 2002, Pivot published To Serve and Protect: A Report on Policing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, which documented various affidavits from residents regarding police behaviour. The report also contained recommendations about improving policing in the neighbourhood.
- Child welfare: Children from low-income families in the Downtown Eastside have a greater chance of being admitted to the child protection system than those from other regions of British Columbia. Pivot advocates for reform to the child protection system and has plans to organize and conduct child welfare legal information sessions through community agencies. In February 2008 Pivot released a new report "Broken Promises - Parents speak about B.C.s child welfare system."
- Health: Promoting prevention, treatment, support and harm reduction programs as the most effective solutions to drug addiction problems.
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