Human Rights 101-103

In this session, participants will gain a broader understanding of the principles, values and role of human rights and how it can be a tool for advocacy and accountability. The session will provide foundations in the international framework and architecture of human rights and the various levels of jurisdiction and legislation.

In this session, participants will learn about the mechanisms that exist for human rights complaints to be heard provincially, federally and internationally. Advocates will learn about the concepts of protected grounds and the protected areas within the Alberta Human Rights Act and the Canadian Human Rights Act and gain understanding what makes a valid human rights complaint.

In this session, participants will learn more about the various mechanisms that exist to file complaints and gain perspective on the process of a human rights complaint in Alberta particularly. They will spend their time developing an understanding of the importance of documentation and what is needed to build a complaint, whether to a human rights commission or other complaint body.