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 Impact Assessment It was tested on three case studies of rice-farming communities in [[Ghana]], [[Honduras]], and [[Indonesia]]. The Humanist Committee on Human Rights (HOM) developed a human rights impact assessment approach to [[women's health]], which is published in Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (2006). Like the Rights & Democracy methodology (described above), the HOM approach is designed for use by civil society. Civil society groups in [[Nepal]] and the [[Netherlands]] used the tool to develop policy recommendations for their respective governments. The former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Paul Hunt, in collaboration with Gillian MacNaughton of the [[Essex