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DEFENSE OF RIGHTS

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  • Alpha
    The mission of the Association d'entraide  of people with physical disabilities in Montreal is to promote the social integration of people with physical and/or neurological limitations and their active maintenance in society. To do this, the organization offers these people social and cultural activity programs, reception and community support services, as well as advocacy and advocacy activities.
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  • Association coopérative d’économie familiale (ACEF)
    Our cooperative association of family economy (ACEF) of the South-West of Montreal intervenes on the questions related to the budget, the indebtedness, the consumption as well as the defense of the rights of the consumers.
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  • Association québécoise de défense des droits des personnes retraitées et préretraitées (AQDR)
    Its mission is the collective defense of the economic, political, social and cultural rights of people in retirement or early retirement. It brings their voice to the public arena, represents their rights and acts as a driver of change to improve their quality of life. Social and political activities are at the heart of the Association's annual programming.
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  • Association québécoise pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité (AQDMD)
    Founded in 2007, the Quebec Association for the Right to Die with Dignity (AQDMD) is a voluntary civic association that benefits from medical and legal expertise on the question of medical assistance in dying (MAD) and which counts in its ranks of those concerned. It speaks in the name of a reality that it masters, in addition to being an essential player in information and the advancement of laws on the question of MAID. It shares its expertise with decision-makers and with all of society's information relays.
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  • Centre d'aide aux victimes d'actes criminels (CAVAC)
    Provides front-line services to any victim of a crime and their loved ones, as well as to witnesses of a crime. CAVAC assistance is available whether or not the perpetrator of the crime is identified, arrested, prosecuted or found guilty. The CAVACs work in collaboration with stakeholders from the legal sector, the health and social services network and community organizations.
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    Centre d'assistance et d'accompagnement aux plaintes de l’Île de Montréal (CAAP)
    The Montreal Island Complaints Assistance and Support Center is a community organization mandated by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, after consultation with the Health and Social Services Agency, to assist and accompany, upon request, users residing on the territory of the Island of Montreal, who wish to lodge a complaint with an establishment of the health and social services network, a CPDP, a Health and social services and the Québec Ombudsman in matters of health and social services.
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  • Clinique juridique de l’Université de Montréal
    The Université de Montréal Legal Clinic now offers all Quebecers free legal advice and support in civil law cases.
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  • Commission des droits de la personne et de la Commission de protection des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ)
    The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse was created in 1976 by the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Its name and current mission come from the merger, in 1995, of the Human Rights Commission and the Youth Rights Protection Commission.  The Commission is an independent body from government and fulfills its mission for the sole benefit of the population and in the public interest.
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  • COMMISSION DES SERVICES JURIDIQUE
    The Commission des services juridiques is the body responsible for applying the Act respecting legal aid and the provision of certain other legal services in Québec.
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  • Éducaloi
    Is a charitable organization that has played a leading role in improving access to justice since its founding in 2000. Its mission is to inform the public about the law, their rights and their responsibilities. To achieve this, it invests in three main fields of action: legal information, legal education and the development of expertise in the clear communication of the law.
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  • Guide de référence Aînés et consommation : des droits à faire valoir
    In a format adapted to customers and in clear language, the guide presents several tips to follow before making a purchase, accepting an offer or signing a contract. In fact, it recalls the basic rules to observe to make better consumer choices and to maintain peace of mind. There are also useful resources for subjects that do not come under the Office de la protection du consommateur.
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  • JuridiQC
    JuridiQC is easy-to-understand legal and psychosocial information, resources to help you and support to get started.
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  • JURIPOP - PRATIQUER LE DROIT, AUTREMENT
    Juripop offers creative, rigorous and accessible legal services so that everyone can assert their rights.
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  • Juristes à Domicile (JAD)
    Is a non-profit organization whose mission is to guide and support its members who find themselves in a difficult situation, or who are vulnerable or deprived, when it comes to having their rights respected. Juristes à Domicile can also facilitate access to low-cost legal services, if necessary.
    The organization's services have the main advantage of being provided by lawyers from the team who will travel to the member who requests it.
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  • La Grande interaction pour rompre avec l’âgisme (GIRA)
    The Great Interaction to Break with Ageism (GIRA) is an initiative led by theResearch Center on Aging of the CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS and developed bya community of researchers, associations for the elderly,senior citizens, students. Aiming to break with ageism,GIRA offers ways to change our perceptions, attitudes and behaviorsagainst ageism by disseminating and promoting rigorous  scientific research onthe causes, effects and issues of ageism.
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  • Ligue des droits et libertés (LDL)
    Founded in 1963, the League of Rights and Freedoms (LDL) is an organization that aims to publicize, defend and promote the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of the rights recognized in the International Bill of Human Rights. Male.
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  • Plaintes et satisfaction (CIUSSS)
    Do you feel that you have not obtained the care and services to which you are entitled? Do you have questions or suggestions?
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  • Projet d’organisation populaire, d’information et de regroupement (P.O.P.I.R.)
    Dedicates  mainly to the right to housing and campaigns for the defense of tenants' rights in Saint-Henri, Little Burgundy, Côte-Saint-Paul and Ville-Émard. The POPIR intervenes in two main areas. First, we  offer information and assistance about rent increases, repossessions, bedbugs and more, from a popular education perspective. Basically, we try to ensure that tenants are supported in the daily struggle for the right to housing on the private market.
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  • Regroupement provincial des comités des usagers (RPCU)
    The mission of the RPCU is to defend and protect the rights of users of the health and social services network by supporting the users' and residents' committees in carrying out their mission and by exercising leadership with regard to the improvement the quality and safety of health and social services in Quebec.
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  • Services juridiques communautaires de Pointe St-Charles et Petite Bourgogne
    Are a non-profit community organization that has existed since 1970 and a local center for legal aid, under the control of the local population.
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  • Tribunal administratif du logement
    (Formerly called La Régie du logement) This specialized administrative tribunal has exclusive jurisdiction in the field of rental housing to hear all applications relating to the lease of a dwelling. In order to promote greater harmony in relations between landlords and tenants, and to ensure compliance by each party with the obligations arising from the lease, the legislator has given the Tribunal a dual mandate: to provide citizens with adequate and effective remedies when one of the parties evades its obligations.
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