Steps in the Rights Direction: 365 human rights celebrations & tragedies that inspired Canada and the world

by Stephen Hammond

Did you know that on:

• January 27, 1959 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Quebec Premier Maurice Duplesis was personally liable for ruining the business of a Jehovah’s Witness?
• April 19, 1907 Aboriginal Canadian Tom Longboat won the Boston Marathon with record time and attracted celebrity status?
• May 12, 1820 Florence Nightingale was born and her strong math skills—discouraged by her mother—led to the innovation that saved so many soldiers?
• June 13, 1986 Henry Vlug became Canada’s first deaf lawyer?
• July 28, 1755 Nova Scotia Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation of thousands of Acadians after years of discrimination?
• September 23, 1992 Canadian Manon Rheaume became the NHL’s first woman hockey player?

You will be amazed, horrified, delighted and inspired by what you read as you absorb each human rights event for every day of the year. Even the acts of discrimination or worse will encourage you to want to do your part to make Canada and the world a better place.

"In taking us through a year of human rights, Stephen Hammond leaves us with a powerful mosaic that reveals just how precious and vital human rights are. Steps in the Rights Direction shows us that great things can and have been achieved in the human rights arena, even in the face of daunting obstacles."
—Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada

About the Author, Stephen Hammond

Stephen Hammond, lawyer, turned speaker and workplace consultant, expects many people attribute his passion for human rights from being thrown in jail years ago in communist Poland for being a spy. That might have helped, but he actually credits so much of his human rights early education from his feminist mother and sister. Stephen has taken his craft of workplace human rights from his first book, Managing Human Rights at Work: 101 Practical Tips to Prevent Human Rights Disasters, and moved it to a new and all-encompassing level where human rights is a part of our everyday lives. Born in Winnipeg, and educated in Winnipeg and Toronto, Stephen now calls British Columbia home.

Visit the author's website at www.StephenHammond.ca.