Ontario Human Rights Code protections. The Ontario Human Rights Code took effect on June 15, 1962, and it was the first Human Rights Code of its kind in Canada. June 15 was chosen as the proclamation date for the Human Rights Code because it was the 747th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. The Ontario Human Rights Code of 1962 replaced the province’s existing anti-discrimination legislation, including: At the same time that the Ontario Human Rights Commission was created, the government of the day, led by Premier Leslie Frost introduced an amendment to the "Fair Accommodation Practices Act" to prohibit discrimination because
Mohamed Lotfy (Human Rights Defender) Mohamed Lotfy (Human Rights Defender) Mohamed Lotfy, a human rights defender, is the co-founder and executive director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), an organisation that works in several governorates of Egypt in the defence of human rights in the country. Before moving back to Cairo and co-founding ECRF in 2013 he was a human rights researcher at Amnesty International in London . On 2 June 2015, a travel ban was imposed on Mohamed Lotfy by Egyptian state security. The human rights defender was stopped on that day by state security at Cairo International Airport as he