Welcome to the Human Rights and Equity Office. Our office offers four services:
UVic orange t-shirt design. Artist: Carey Newman (Kwakwaka'wakw/Coast Salish)
An Unthinkable Loss...
The Queen’s University Human Rights and Equity Office stands in solidarity with Indigenous communities, students, staff, and faculty during a time of deep mourning after the unthinkable loss of 215+ children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. Read the full statement here
The Queen’s University Human Rights and Equity Office condemns the horrific killing of four members, and the severe injury of one member, of a Muslim family in London, Ontario, on June 06, 2021.
Read the full statement hereResources on Racism in Canada
Please visit this page if you are looking for anti-racism information and resources.
Human Rights Issues and Resources
Visit this page to see a list of resources for students, faculty and staff. This list will be revised.
HREO Mission and Vision
In this video, Stephanie Simpson, Associate Vice-Principal (Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion), discusses what Human Rights & Equity means to the Queen's University community.
Our Services
Visit our About Us page for more information on the different services our office offers.
Queen’s University is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. To acknowledge this traditional territory is to recognize its longer history, one predating the establishment of the earliest European colonies. It is also to acknowledge this territory’s significance for the Indigenous peoples who lived, and continue to live, upon it –people whose practices and spiritualities were tied to the land and continue to develop in relationship to the territory and its other inhabitants today. The Kingston Indigenous community continues to reflect the area’s Anishinaabek and Haudenosaunee roots. There is also a significant Métis community and there are First Peoples from other Nations across Turtle Island present here today