Speaking out on human rights : debating Canada's human rights system / Pearl Eliadis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliadis, Pearl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Canada.

Human rights.

Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Canada : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Shows how our human rights system plays a unique and important role in the rights revolution both in Canada and internationally and offers promising avenues for its future development."--Publishers website.

Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Introducing Human Rights Systems

Human Rights Systems Then and Now

Do We Still Need Them?

Are They Fair?

Signal Cases, Rights Conflicts, and Building a Human Rights Culture

Ideas for the Way Forward

Appendix One Interviews

Appendix Two The Paris Principles

Appendix Three Overview of Human Rights Systems in Canada

Appendix Four Recommendations for Changes to Human Rights Systems

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-393) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 21, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773591844

0773591842

9780773591837

0773591834

OCLC:

881552170