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One of the OHRC’s key roles is to educate individuals and organizations across Ontario about human rights obligations and policies. But we also try to provide the tools to help put those policies into practice.

OHRC guides offer practical, step-by-step approaches to such challenges as collecting human rights-based data or designing a workplace human rights policy.

Brochures and fact sheets are short handouts that include selected parts of policies and larger reports that may be of interest to a specific audience. 

These products may also be produced to offer more information on areas like how a policy was created, what steps the OHRC took before making recommendations, what steps were taken in a certain consultation, etc.

One of the OHRC’s key roles is to educate individuals and organizations across Ontario about human rights obligations and policies. But we also try to provide the tools to help put those policies into practice.

OHRC guides offer practical, step-by-step approaches to such challenges as collecting human rights-based data or designing a workplace human rights policy.

Brochures and fact sheets are short handouts that include selected parts of policies and larger reports that may be of interest to a specific audience. 

These products may also be produced to offer more information on areas like how a policy was created, what steps the OHRC took before making recommendations, what steps were taken in a certain consultation, etc.

2004 - As part of the duty to accommodate, education providers are responsible for taking steps to plan for the accommodation of students with disabilities. Effective planning will take place both on an organizational and individual level.
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December 2003 - In order to bridge the divide between those who deny the existence of racial profiling on the one hand, and the communities who have long held that they are targets of racial profiling on the other, the Commission plans to
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December 2003 - In reviewing the material received during its inquiry, the following eight themes emerged.
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December 2003 - The Commission’s racial profiling inquiry initiative was undertaken in response to community concerns about the impact of profiling on members of their respective communities. The inquiry’s main objectives were to give individuals who had been subjected to profiling an opportunity to share those experiences and to show its effects on their families and communities. In doing so, the Commission hoped to raise public awareness of the harmful effects and the social costs of racial profiling.
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December 2003 - The Commission’s report on racial profiling puts forward a number of recommendations to address the issue of racial profiling.
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2003 - For the purposes of its inquiry, the Commission’s definition for "racial profiling" is any action undertaken for reasons of safety, security or public protection, that relies on stereotypes about race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, or place of origin, or a combination of these, rather than on a reasonable suspicion, to single out an individual for greater scrutiny or different treatment.
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2003 - Barriers to education can take a variety of forms. They can be physical, technological, systemic, financial, or attitudinal, or they can arise from an education provider’s failure to make available a needed accommodation in a timely manner.
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2003 - The student with a disability (or his or her parent/guardian) has a responsibility to:
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July 2002 - While not referring to any existing private schools, Chief Commissioner Keith C. Norton has publicly expressed concerns regarding the Ontario government’s proposed tax credit for parents who send their children to private schools.
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2002 - Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, transit service providers have a legal responsibility to ensure that transit systems are accessible to all Ontarians. Many older persons depend of public transit services to go to work, to get to medical appointments, to go to the grocery store, to participate in recreational activities and to visit family and friends. Transit services that are not accessible can cause isolation and prevent participation of older persons in our communities.
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