The Camille Natale Awards 2024 The annual Camille Natale Awards reflect OSSTF Toronto’s belief in the power of student action to make a difference for peace, social justice, equity and human rights locally and globally. The awards are administered by both the District’s Communications and Political Action and Human Rights Committees. Awards... Read More

The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) is doing a survey of teachers, students and administrators in Toronto to learn more about mining industry influence in Toronto schools. The Canadian mining industry currently pours a ton of resources into teaching kids and youth that large-scale industrial mining is neutral, normal, inevitable... Read More

To support teachers in commemorating the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia with students, the D12 Human Rights Committee would like to share these excellent classroom resources that have been created and curated by META (Muslim Educators of Toronto Association), an affinity group... Read More

Every year around Human Rights Day (December 10), Amnesty International supporters around the world send letters, emails, and petitions in support of people at risk of human rights abuses. The District 12 Human Rights Committee will be hosting an Amnesty International Write for Rights virtual event on December 6, between 5pm and 7pm. Please... Read More

The OSSTF Toronto Human Rights Committee Awards have been established to honour outstanding OSSTF members (TBU, OTBU, and PSSP) who have demonstrated leadership in any of the following categories: COMMUNITY IMPACT – Locally, Provincially, or Globally EQUITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS WORK ADVOCACY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE The District Human Rights... Read More

OSSTF Toronto will be engaging in a full withdrawal of services on December 11, as part of the Provincial OSSTF/FEESO central strike strategy. An all member telephone town hall, to prepare all three Bargaining Units for picket duties, has been called for 7PM on December 9th. The timing of this town hall conflicts with the […] Read More

The D12 Human Rights Committee invites members to participate in Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign on December 9, 2019 (the day before International Human Rights Day), in a write-athon to be held at A Different Booklist. Each year, hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens from around the world participate in Write for... Read More

A youth social justice forum Hosted by the OSSTF Toronto HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE For the sixth year the Human Rights Committee of OSSTF District 12 (Toronto Secondary Teachers, Occasional Teachers and Professional Student Services Personnel) will host an exciting and unique student social justice forum.  We created Action:reAction to draw... Read More

The Camille Natale Awards 2019 The annual Camille Natale Awards reflect OSSTF Toronto’s belief in the power of student action to make a difference for peace, social justice, equity and human rights locally and globally. The awards are administered by both the District’s Communications and Political Action and Human Rights Committees. Awards... Read More

The OSSTF Toronto Human Rights Committee is looking for dynamic, participatory workshop proposals from activist OSSTF Members, individuals and groups in the community. For the sixth year the Human Rights Committee of OSSTF Toronto (Secondary Teachers, Occasional Teachers, and Professional Student Services Personnel) will host an exciting and... Read More