An Intersectional Approach to Discrimination: Addressing Multiple Grounds in Human Rights Claims

This resource includes a Canadian-based framework for a contextualized intersectional approach to analyzing discrimination in multiple grounds complaints. The Ontario Human Rights Commissions provides a description of the intersectional approach, as well as other approaches to multiple grounds, such as human rights and charter cases. In addition, this resource outlines how the Commission is starting to integrate intersectionality within its processes, courts, and tribunals. For example, the value of “intersectional analysis” is discussed, as it can be used as a lens to examine the social context of individuals in certain cases.