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"All human beings
are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The Government of Ontario's decision to provide
public funds for the total support of a separate school system
dedicated to the indoctrination of the religious beliefs of one faith group,
to the exclusion of all others, is a violation of our guarantee of equality
of treatment under both our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
As such, the separate school issue is,
first and foremost, a human rights and justice issue.
Civil Rights in Public Education,
Inc.
is a non-governmental organization whose
founders, since 1985, have been advocating one publicly-funded education system in which all Ontario students will receive equitable treatment in matters
of religion, with privilege or prejudice to no one.
OUR AIMS
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to promote social harmony and cohesiveness
in multicultural Ontario through the establishment and strengthening of
one public education system which treats every child equally
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to promote the most effective use of public
funds to provide quality education for all, so that no citizen of Ontario
will ever again be privileged or disadvantaged publicly because of his/her
faith, or absence of faith.
OUR LOGO is composed of a background
scroll representing the charters of rights which guarantee fundamental
freedoms to all individuals; the numeral "1" signifies equality and social
unity in one public education system for each official language; the flame
above is the universal symbol for freedom.
Last updated September 9, 2009
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