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Subject(s)

• Human rights—Canada [Browse]
• Canadian Human Rights Commission [Browse]

Summary note

"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.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

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

Source of description

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

Language note

English

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.

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ISBN

• 0-7735-9184-2
• 0-7735-9183-4

OCLC

• 881552170
• 865225417

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