It is our pleasure to welcome you to the website of the Human Rights Tribunal.

This specialized, autonomous and independent judicial Tribunal has as its mandate to hear and decide disputes in the areas of discrimination, harassment, exploitation of the elderly and of handicapped persons, and affirmative action programs, as set out in its constitutive law, the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Since its creation in 1990, the Tribunal's decisions have helped concretise the principles enacted by the Charter and render Quebec society more egalitarian, in the respect of the rights of others and of diversity.

In my role as the new President of the Tribunal, I will make sure that the Tribunal remains accessible to citizens, that its procedures are efficient and effective and that the principles of independence, procedural fairness and the separation of powers remain as its foundations. I also hope to promote an even greater opening of the Tribunal towards civil society and the legal community, in order to ensure the dissemination of the rights and freedoms embedded in the Charter and the advancement of democracy.

Michèle Pauzé
President, Human Rights Tribunal