Welcome!
York University’s Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion (CHREI) promotes and builds a respectful, equitable, diverse, and inclusive university community. We strive to be a leader in providing accessible, impartial, non-adversarial, and confidential programs and services that uphold human rights, facilitate equitable access to opportunities, and champion diversity and inclusion.
CHREI provides free services to current York students, faculty, and staff. To consult our team, call, leave us a message or e-mail us. Leave your name, email, and/or phone number and we will respond within 3 business days.
Our Guiding Principles:
Accessibility
The Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion (CHREI) will strive to ensure that all members of the community have access to its services in accordance with the most appropriate accommodations.
Accountability
The community will be made aware of the CHREI’s activities in various ways including the publication of an Annual Report. This will ensure accountability to the community and will permit CHREI to report on trends, issues, and practices as well as recommendations (s) for changes.
Alignment
York University values include the pursuit of excellence in service provision, a commitment to progressive and innovative approaches to problem-solving, the embrace of diversity and inclusion, adherence to principles of social justice and equity, and a concern for environmental, social, and fiscal sustainability. The work of CHREI constantly seeks to advance these values in alignment with the university’s vision and mission.
Confidentiality
The Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion shall keep all information about parties to disputes and all information disclosed with the expectation of privacy, confidential except as required to be disclosed according to university policies and procedures or as provided by law.
Impartiality
The CHREI’s independence and impartiality are critical to the sense of fairness and unbiased integrity with which it must conduct its work. Its location within the institutional organization reflects this structural autonomy.
Procedural Fairness
In the determination of disputes, procedures followed by CHREI affecting the interests and well-being of community members must be fair to the parties. A complainant’s right to pursue a complaint must be balanced with the respondent’s right to be heard in an impartial and open process. Procedural fairness, therefore, includes the opportunity to respond, the right to receive notice of procedural steps, and the right to receive reasons for decisions reached.
Contact Us
Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion
York University
2070 Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building,
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
Office hours: Mon – Fri, 08.30 am – 04.30 pm
For Case Resolution Services:
Contact us to arrange an appointment with our office. Client Intake hours are from Mon – Fri, 08.30 am – 03.30 pm.
Leave us your full name, e-mail, and phone number in the text of your message and we will get back to you within 3 business days.
Telephone: 416-736-5682
Email: rights@yorku.ca
For Engagement, Knowledge Exchange, and Education Services:
Click here for a list of upcoming training sessions.
To speak with an Education & Communications Advisor, please contact us at:
Telephone: 416-736-5682
Email: chrwkshp@yorku.ca
Institutional Initiatives:
Connect with a member of the Institutional Initiatives team:
Telephone: 416-736-5682
Email: reiedi@yorku.ca
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