{"id":10854,"date":"2025-11-23T02:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:30:28","slug":"b-c-human-rights-chief-declares-that-its-colonialist-to-stigmatize-drug-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=10854","title":{"rendered":"B.C. human rights chief declares that it’s colonialist to stigmatize drug use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

: B.C. human rights chief declares that it’s colonialist to stigmatize drug use<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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[Human Rights Commissions have long been mortal enemies of freedom of speech and often of common sense. However, recent pronouncements by the excessively paid ($351. 847) “rights” czaina, one Kasari Govender plumb new depths of madness. According to her” any return to stigmatizing illicit drug use is racist, colonialist and a violation of human rights..”],<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overdose crisis is ‘rooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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B.C. Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender speaks in Vancouver, on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Just as B.C. officially acknowledges that decriminalizing drugs was a mistake, its own human rights commissioner has issued a statement saying that any return to stigmatizing illicit drug use is racist, colonialist and a violation of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The overdose crisis, which has killed more than 16,000 people in B.C. since 2016, is \u201crooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy,\u201d reads a new position statement<\/a> by Kasari Govender, B.C.\u2019s human <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cUsing punitive tactics by criminalizing people who use drugs and doubling down on prohibition policies have proven to be ineffective and harmful for decades,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When public policy on substance use and treatment of people who use drugs is based on stigma and morality, rather than evidence and respect for fundamental human dignity, harmful policies result. My new position statement on the toxic drug crisis response: https:\/\/t.co\/ReuJbdhXh4<\/a><\/p>— Kasari Govender (@KasariGovender) November 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>