Descriptions for Workshops:

Human Rights 101

• What is meant by Human Rights and Equity Rights?
• How are Human Rights obtained and maintained?
• Human Rights and Equity within the workplace

Duty to Accommodate

• Examine the basics on the Duty to Accommodate
• Explore employer obligations and workers’ rights 
• Examine best practices and develop strategies and actions to take back to the workplaces to ensure that workers are properly accommodated

Exposing Isms and Oppressions

• Exposing Oppression and answering back
• We are all Allies
• How to work with Allies?

Activism Made Easy

• How does one engage in activism?
• Why should the union get involved in society?
• Making the links between union and community activism

Descriptions for Round Tables

Women’s Committees

• Place in the PSAC structure
• Two primary campaigns for women’s committees
• Setting up a new women’s committee

Aboriginal Elder

• Aboriginal community in Saskatchewan

United Nations and Human Rights

• UN Declaration of Human Rights
• UN declaration on Indigenous People’s Rights - UN declaration for Persons with Disability Rights
• UN Day of Peace Sept 21

Duty to Accommodate

• What is Duty to Accommodate
• How does it apply
• Where to get further information

Water

• Water in Canada
• Politics of water
• Water campaigns

International Solidarity – Social Justice Fund

• Why do we do international work
• What is the Social Justice Fund

Getting informed about Human Rights

• where does one get the most up to date info on Human Rights
• Web sites and newspapers
• how does one filter out the noise

Indigenous Sovereignty

• What does Indigenous Sovereignty mean
• Historical perspective
• Present day reality of land claims

Local Human Right Officer

• Why a Human Rights Officer – top 10 reasons
• What does an HR officer do i.e. equity plan
• Interesting alternatives to engage in the local
• Activities and Education opportunities

Pride Issues

• Where is the LGBT community today – legally
• Does legal advancement matter if society has not caught up
• Trans rights

Human Rights Commission

• What does it do
• Interesting advances through the HRC
• What does the HRC not do

Employment Equity Plans

• How does PSAC equity differ from EEA
• What is an EEP
• Does each local, region, dept have one