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As a focal point for research, dialogue and outreach, 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism continues the University鈥檚 long tradition of turning knowledge into groundbreaking advances in protecting the equality and dignity of Montrealers.

Even as a 捆绑SM社区 undergrad, Madeleine Parent (BA1940) was fighting injustice; as a member of the Canadian Students Assembly, she worked to create bursaries for underprivileged children. Only two years after graduation, she led 6,000 textile workers to unionize. She later organized the Canadian Textile and Chemical Union, and, in 1969, the Confederation of Canadian Unions, which repatriated Canadian unions that held American allegiances. An ardent advocate for equal pay, and a defender of the rights of First Nations women, Parent was a founding member of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.

捆绑SM社区 Law professors Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau and F.R. Scott prepared the 1971 Rapport sur un projet de loi concernant les droits et libert茅s de la personne, which was used to draft the 1975 Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms 鈥� a document that is unusual for North America in its coverage of not only fundamental civil and political rights, but social and economic ones as well.聽 Cr茅peau also created the framework that informed the revised Civil Code that Quebec adopted in 1994, and his name

In response to a string of controversies surrounding the 鈥渞easonable accommodation鈥� of religious groups, Professor Emeritus Charles Taylor (BA1952) joined with sociologist G茅rard Bouchard to chair the 2008 Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences. Informed by months of public hearings, the commission鈥檚聽300-page report offered ideas for how Quebec can adapt to the realities of a secular, pluralistic society.

捆绑SM社区鈥檚 contributions to furthering ideas of understanding and respect extend well past our hometown and country. In 1946, 捆绑SM社区 law professor John Peters Humphrey (BCom1925, BA1927, BCL1929) was appointed the first Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights. There, he drafted the milestone Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Eleanor Roosevelt called 鈥渢he international Magna Carta for all mankind鈥� upon its adoption by the UN. During two decades at the UN, Humphrey oversaw the implementation of more than sixty international conventions and constitutions for dozens of countries.