Commission on Human Rights

• Quebec human rights commission weighs in on Muslim veils.

THE QUEBEC HUMAN RIGHTS comission has ruled that Muslim women who wear veils must show their faces when applying for health cards in the province. A...

• Presbyterian Record
• Vol. 134 Nbr. 5, May 2010

• Geneva--The U.N.'s Commission on Human Rights has suppressed a report by its own investigators.

Geneva -- The U.N.'s Commission on Human Rights has suppressed a report by its own investigators of the genocide in western Sudan to avoid offending t...

• Catholic Insight
• Vol. 12 Nbr. 7, July 2004

• Perserverance and Triumph Was Experienced by Many

Muriel Stanley Venne was honoured by Native Outreach for her commitment to improving employment opportunities for Aboriginal people in Alberta. The Métis woman had been appointed as one of the first seven commissioners of the Alberta Human Rights Commission in 1973. She went on to establish a solid reputation for dealing with human rights and social justice issues, founding the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women. The mother of four has been honoured by the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, the Métis Women of Alberta, Alberta Human Rights, and Native Counselling Services of Alberta, to name just a few, and continues to be active in the province today. At the University of Alberta campus, Aboriginal high school students from around the province travelled to celebr...

• Windspeaker
• Vol. 26 Nbr. 3, June 2008

• Canada and the United Nations Human Rights Council: dissent and division.

... into existence, replacing the former Commission on Human Rights with a restructured intergovernmen...

• University of New Brunswick Law Journal
• Nbr. 60, January 2010

• Grow Up, Boys!

In 1976 in Ontario, Debbie Baszo challenged the Ontario Rural Softball Association and Gail Cummings the Ontario Minor Hockey Association at that province's Human Rights Commission after these star players were disallowed from playing softball and hockey on boys' teams because they were girls. They won, but the decision was overturned later by the provincial courts, not on human rights grounds, but on the legal technicalities of what is considered a public place and the definition of a "person. The young and brave athlete persisted, believing that if she wasn't going to be allowed to play, then her "daughter, or granddaughter, or granddaughter's friends would." She says today that had she known what would happen to her, she wouldn't have been able to stand up for the rights of girls. I...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009

• Amnesty International Canada v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 FC 336 (2008)

...87. IV. DOES THE CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS. APPLY DURING THE ARMED CONFLICT IN A... and, in particular, by international humanitarian law, they do not have rights under the Canadian Ch... the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, which letters emphasize the role of the AIHRC in ...

• Federal Court

• Un Declaration On the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Efforts to draft a declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples first began in 1985 as a project of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. The first draft of the document was completed in 1993 and was adopted by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Then, in 1995, the document went on to the Commission on Human Rights, which established a working group to review the draft.

• Windspeaker
• Vol. 25 Nbr. 7, October 2007

• Chapter 2 - Budget Implementation Act, 2009

... that Act; and (b) authorize the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development to suspend or den..., this Part amends the Canadian Human Rights Act so that the provisions of that Act dealing wit... injunction to freeze assets if the Commissioner of Competition intends to ask for such a compensat...

• Canada Gazette Nbr. 604, May 05, 2009
• Part III - Acts of Parliament

• New Viceregal Makes History

[Lee] has a bachelor's degree in science and a diploma in public administration from the University of Manitoba, and worked as a chemist for the City of Winnipeg from 1967 to 2005. When he retired, he was the branch head chemist in charge of Winnipeg's industrial waste control program. He served on the City of Winnipeg's Refugee Assistance Committee and was on the board of the Manitoba Human Rights Commission from 1998 to 2000. He has also been involved in the Winnipeg arts community, was the vice-president of the Folk Arts Council of Winnipeg, was on the Multiculturalism Council of Canada and was on the board of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1999 and received the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2002. Lee has worked diligently on behalf of downtown...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 07, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

The article seems to portray an antagonistic relationship between the two parties when in fact a very cordial relationship exists. Communication between the human rights commission and the Garden Valley School Division on this matter up to Aug. 23 was by written correspondence only. The correspondence from the commission did not refer to a "poisoned environment" nor did it give the school board a "little lecture on the code. She characterizes as a "racist diatribe" [Harold Buchwald]'s statement that "while not all Muslims are terrorists, most terrorists to date have been Muslim." But, the statement itself is true. What he said is in no way a diatribe or racist. Indeed, her words seems more a diatribe than his statement of fact. A case in point: O.J. Simpson was found "not guilty" in ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009