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Rosalie Abella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (410 words) |
 | Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, and came to Canada with her family in 1950. |
| Abella, who is considered one of Canada's foremost experts in human rights law, has also been a chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Ontario Law Reform Commission, and a board member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. |
| Abella was the sole commissioner of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, in which she coined the term employment equity, a strategy for reducing barriers in employment faced by women, non-whites, people with disabilities, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada. |
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