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
Human rights in the Federated States of Micronesia The FSM have acceded to numerous international legal treaties. These include, amongst others, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict The four pillars of the Pacific Plan provide strategies and activities towards protecting Pacific cultural, economic, legal, political and spiritual rights. The Vision of this plan states "We seek a Pacific region that is respected for the quality of its governance, the sustainable management of its resources, the observation of democratic values and for its defense and promotion of human rights." The Preamble to the Constitution of