SETTLEMENT WORKERS NEED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS IN ONTARIO AND CANADA, IN ORDER TO INFORM IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.
Toronto - May 5th
COPA is pleased to offer our suite of professional development, training and educational resources aimed at creating welcoming schools and communities to OCASI members from now until June 2021.
From the Canada Council of Muslim Women, as Black History Month comes to a close and we enter Women’s History Month, it is imperative to continue to highlight the work of Black Muslim women in Canada. Throughout the month of March, CCMW will be spotlighting various Black Muslimahs through the ‘Black Muslimahs Shining Series’ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL2avhNA692/
February 11, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario – Women and Gender Equality Canada
The ICES recently published a report on the impact of COVID-19 in Immigrants, Refugees and Other Recent OHIP Registrants in Toronto, data as of November 1, 2020 and trends over time as of November 7, 2020, fully titled "Key findings from ICES Report on COVID-19 in Immigrants, Refugees and Other Recent OHIP Registrants (Guttmann A,
Gandhi S, Wanigaratne S, Lu H, Ferreira-Legere LE. Toronto, ON: ICES; 2020.)".
Some key findings are:
An important resource to help support your organization in deepening its work of examining, confronting & dismantling systemic racism and specifically anti-Black racism.
Ontario's Government is improving supports in rural and remote communities for women who are victims of violence and sexual exploitation.
Ontario's Government for the People is tapping into a network of community partners, including about 900 member organizations, agencies and partners, to help stop violence against women and improve services for survivors.
This section of the Ontario Human Rights Commission explains the OHRC policy preventing discrimination based on creed.
Ontario's human rights laws protect individuals from discrimination when they are receiving healthcare services. The Human Rights Code applies to services they receive from a home care program, at the hospital, in a doctor’s office, or at another healthcare facility.
This section of the Ontario Human Rights Commission website explains the OHRC position on dress codes for employers and employees.