Bhausaheb Ubale
Canadian human rights activist
Bhausaheb Ubale, (b. 1936 in the Satara district, Maharashtra, India – d. 14 March 2012, Pune, India) was an Indian-born Canadian human rights activist.
Education
Ubale received a Master of Arts degree in 1971 from the University of Leeds and a Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Bradford.
Work
From 1978 to 1985, he was a Commissioner on the Ontario Human Rights Commission. From 1986 to 1989, he was a Commissioner on the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
He is the author of Equal Opportunity and Public Policy (1978), a report submitted to the Attorney General of Ontario, and Politics of Exclusion: Multiculturalism or Ghettoism (1992, ISBN 0-9696103-0-0).
In 2001, he was awarded the Order of Ontario in recognition of his being "a renowned human rights activist whose work has made Ontario and Canada, a better place to live for people of all backgrounds". [1] Archived 2018-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
References
"Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". University of Toronto Press.
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