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Policy on competing human rights : Politique sur les droits de la personne contradictoires

23 Mar 2012

Organizations can reduce the potential for human rights conflict and competing rights situations by: being very familiar with the Ontario Human Rights Code and with their obligations under it taking steps to educate and train responsible individuals on competing rights situations and the OHRC’s Policy on Competing Human Rights having in place a clear and comprehensive competing rights policy [...] The Declaration opens: Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…9 Legal systems around the world have responded to this universal commitment to world peace by granting special protection to human rights. [...] For example, the Preamble to the Code is informed by the principles of mutual respect and the recognition of the dignity and worth of every person. [...] Consistent with the general approach to reconciling competing rights under the Charter, both decisions then balanced the right to be free from discrimination based on sexual orientation against the religious rights of the marriage commissioners under s. 1 of the Charter and concluded, for slightly different reasons, that the equality rights infringement could not be justified despite the goal of a [...] In the context of freedom of belief or religion, the courts have found that the “freedom to hold beliefs is broader than the freedom to act upon them” where to do so would interfere with the rights of others.26 The Ontario Human Rights Code protects against discrimination on the basis of creed.
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ISBN
9781443592482 9781443592499 9781443592505
Pages
67
Published in
Canada

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