The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) ( French : L'Association ukrainienne-canadienne des droits civils ( AU-CDC )) is a Ukrainian organization in Canada. Established in 1986 after the Civil Liberties Commission (affiliated with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress ) was disbanded, its members – all of whom are volunteers – have been particularly active in championing the cause of recognition, restitution and reconciliation with respect to Canada's first national internment operations , helping secure a redress settlement in 2008 with the Government of Canada along with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Taras Shevchenko Foundation. They have also challenged unfounded allegations about the supposed presence of "Nazi war criminals" hiding in Canada, and documented the presence of veterans of the NKVD , SMERSH , and KGB in Canada. The first chairman of the CLC/UCCLA was John B. Gregorovich, a lawyer. The last chairman was Roman Zakaluzny. He resigned in September 2024. The immediate past president, and UCCLA's last founding member, was Dr Lubomyr Luciuk, who resigned from UCCLA on 6 November 2024.
9-402: UCCLA may refer to: Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title UCCLA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
18-455: A notice raising their concerns in The Hill Times (31 January 2011). Some of UCCLA's critics have tried to censure or even call for the silencing of its voice in the public debate over the proposed contents and governance of the tax payer funded Canadian Museum for Human Rights. One of UCCLA's other recent campaigns (February 2016) involved an appeal to the then- Minister of Canadian Heritage ,
27-485: The Honourable Mélanie Joly , requesting her intervention to help save and re-consecrate the internment camp cemetery at Spirit Lake (La Ferme), Quebec . That internee cemetery remains abandoned and in ever-deteriorating condition, despite being a unique Canadian historical site. UCCLA was a volunteer organization supported by the donations and efforts of thousands of Canadians of Ukrainian heritage . Some of
36-580: The Ukrainian Canadian Victoria Cross recipient, Cpl Filip Konowal ; recalling the contributions of Ukrainian Canadian servicemen and women during the Second World War (London, England); and honouring the Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones , reported on the famine of 1932–33. UCCLA has also commissioned a number of articles and books that have been distributed internationally dealing with
45-595: The books and pamphlets published with the support of the UCCLA include: Tr%C3%A9cesson, Quebec Trécesson is a township municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec , located in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality . The municipality is part of the census agglomeration of Amos . It includes the communities of Clercs-Saint-Viateur, La Ferme, Lac-Davy, Trécesson, and Villemontel. In
54-584: The country, often co-ordinating their meeting dates with the unveiling of trilingual historical markers commemorating the internment operations at different camp locations or otherwise recalling important individuals or events in Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history. The association and its supporters have also placed two dozen trilingual markers and four statues across Canada , in Ukraine and in France honouring
63-694: The famine, Anglo-American perspectives on the question of Ukraine's independence, the Ukrainian nationalist movement before, during and after the Second World War, and Soviet military operations. In 2003–2004, UCCLA campaigned to have the 1932 Pulitzer Prize of Walter Duranty , the New York Times correspondent in Moscow from 1922 to 1934, revoked. Duranty wrote in 1933, during the Great Famine, that "there
72-441: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UCCLA&oldid=1072267918 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association UCCLA's members met annually during conclaves held in different cities across
81-507: Was no famine" and criticized articles by other Western journalists as "failed predictions of doom for the Soviets". In 2010 UCCLA strove to ensure that all 12 galleries in the publicly funded Canadian Museum for Human Rights were thematic , comparative and inclusive – rather than elevating the suffering of any one or two communities above all others. To that end the association distributed thousands of protest postcards nationally and published
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