On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations officially adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration – one of the greatest documents of modern history – was the world’s response to the atrocities and horrors of the Holocaust. It is an…
On December 6, 1989, a 25-year-old man named Marc Lépine burst into l’École Polytechnique de Montréal with an assault rifle and killed 14 women in cold blood. Their deaths shocked a nation and, in 1991, sparked the Canadian Parliament to designate December 6 as a National…
On October 14, 1992, the member states of the United Nations General Assembly agreed to proclaim December 3 as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Every year since then, people across Saskatchewan and around the world have observed this special date with respect and recognition. They…
It's the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission's job to discourage and eliminate discrimination. It does that in three ways:
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission reports to the Minister of Justice
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