In collaboration with Denise Reynolds, UCTE Human Rights Officer International Women’s Day (IWD) grew out of the labour movement to become an annual celebration recognized by the United Nations.  In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York demanding shorter working hours,...

To conclude Black History Month, UCTE would like to take the time to go back to the very beginning of the rebellions of the 1700s. Canada was one of the countries that used slavery.  In the 1600s, there were 4,200...

Originally from Jamaica, Rosemary Brown was the first Black woman in Canada to be elected to a provincial legislature, and also the first woman to run for the leadership of a federal political party. Born in 1930, she immigrated to...