Sentence examples for rights code from inspiring English sources

Ontario added sexual orientation to its human rights code in 1986.

As to that, he said gays and lesbians should not have "special rights": code words used by those who oppose equal rights legislation.

The human rights judges are not insisting that all prisoners have the right to vote, declaring only that it is a blanket ban on such a right that breaches the human rights code.

However, many Canadians, gay and heterosexual, are unmoved by Mr. Day's newly moderate image, recalling that as a provincial minister he advocated excluding gays and lesbians from protection under Alberta's human rights code.

Doing this in a way that doesn't violate every human rights code in the book is a lot more expensive than paying them benefit, so there'd be no temptation to do it for financial reasons.

On the Pacific coast, the Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia recently found Walter Gray, Mayor of Kelowna, an interior city, guilty of violating the province's human rights code for omitting the word "Pride" when he proclaimed a municipal Lesbian and Gay Day.

However, new forms of liability have emerged, through litigation under general human rights codes or specific regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

They also have their own human rights codes.

According to the Business and Human Rights Resource Center, 235 companies have adopted human rights codes of conduct.

Only one territory and three provinces have human rights codes that recognize complaints based on gender identity.

We are already seeing corporations taking his lead by drafting human rights codes of conduct and engaging in human rights impact assessments.