¶ Canadian Human Rights Commission
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The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) is an agency of the Government of Canada based in Ottawa, Ontario. It is responsible for monitoring the Government of Canada's implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.[1]
¶ Organization
The CHRC is a member of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA).[2]
¶ History
In 2019, the CHRC became responsible for monitoring the Government of Canada's implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.[3]
In October 2020, nine employees of the CHRC filed grievances through their unions alleging discrimination on the basis of skin colour.[4]
On December 10, 2021, CHRC Chief Commissioner Marie-Claude Landry co-published an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen criticizing those protesting COVID-19 restrictions based on human rights principles.[5]
In March 2023, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat concluded that the CHRC "had discriminated against its Black and racialized employees."[4:1] In December 2023, the Senate of Canada's Standing Committee on Human Rights published a report titled "Anti-Black Racism, Sexism and Systemic Discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Commission" and called on the federal government to commence an independent review of working conditions for "Black, Indigenous and racialized employees" at the CHRC, and of Canada's human rights laws.[6]
¶ Publications
About the Process
Annual Reports
- Build Back Better: 2020 Annual Report to Parliament
- Stronger Together: 2021 Annual Report to Parliament
Articles
- October 21, 2021: Vaccination policies and human rights: Frequently asked questions for employers and employees
- December 10, 2021: "Individual rights come with collective responsibility" by Isha Khan and Marie-Claude Landry
- March 28, 2023: The Right to Respect: Expectations in the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Complaint Process
Complaint Rules
Reports
- 2015: The Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Equality and Non-Discrimination
- Co-published with the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA)
¶ External links
¶ Further reading
Canadian Human Rights Act, RSC 1985, c H-6, s 28.1. CanLII. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://canlii.ca/t/7vh5#sec28.1 ↩︎
About Us. Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240510224720/https://cashra.ca/about-us/ ↩︎
Monitoring the Rights of People with Disabilities. (2024, February 5). Canadian Human Rights Commission. https://web.archive.org/web/20240502012351/https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/en/monitoring-the-rights-of-people-with-disabilities ↩︎
Thurton, D. (2023, December 14). Human rights commission faces a “crisis of confidence” over anti-Black racism: Senate. CBC News. https://web.archive.org/web/20240104073246/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/human-rights-commission-racism-1.7058616 ↩︎ ↩︎
Khan, I., & Landry, M.-C. (2021, December 10). Khan and Landry: As COVID-19 shows, individual rights come with collective responsibility. Ottawa Citizen. http://archive.today/2024.02.23-022015/https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/khan-and-landry-as-covid-19-shows-individual-rights-come-with-collective-responsibility ↩︎
Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. (2023, December 11). Anti-Black Racism, Sexism and Systemic Discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Senate of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20231229225242/https://sencanada.ca/en/info-page/parl-44-1/ridr-anti-black-racism/ ↩︎