Speaking Out on Human Rights
Debating Canada's Human Rights System
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2014
455 pages
978-0-7735-9183-7 (ISBN)
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A critical analysis of the rhetoric and reality surrounding human rights commissions and tribunals, Canada's most contested administrative agencies.
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05/2014
McGill-Queen's University Press
€172.33
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Eliadis Pearl:
Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal-based lawyer and lecturer. She has worked with human rights systems in six countries, including Canada. Eliadis teaches civil liberties at McGill University and is president of the Quebec Bar Association's Advisory Committee on Human Rights.Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal-based lawyer and lecturer. She has worked with human rights systems in six countries, including Canada. Eliadis teaches civil liberties at McGill University and is president of the Quebec Bar Association's Advisory Committee on Human Rights.
Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal-based lawyer and lecturer. She has worked with human rights systems in six countries, including Canada. Eliadis teaches civil liberties at McGill University and is president of the Quebec Bar Association's Advisory Committee on Human Rights.Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal-based lawyer and lecturer. She has worked with human rights systems in six countries, including Canada. Eliadis teaches civil liberties at McGill University and is president of the Quebec Bar Association's Advisory Committee on Human Rights.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About This Book
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Introducing Human Rights Systems
- 2 Human Rights Systems Then and Now
- 3 Do We Still Need Them?
- 4 Are They Fair?
- 5 Signal Cases, Rights Conflicts, and Building a Human Rights Culture
- 6 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
