Today, many human rights commissions are threatened or are no longer in existence. This book argues in support of our human rights institutions, including the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights. These arguments debunk current challenges to our human rights commissions and tribunals. Further, they chronicle the ways in which governments have backed away from the project of growing a culture of human rights, and of maintaining the role of human rights commissions to promote and protect human rights. In sum, this book will help readers to evaluate criticism of human rights institutions so that Canadians can strengthen current systems and ensure that they are responding to today’s problems in the field of human rights.
CONTENTS
Editors’ Introduction Shelagh Day, Lucie Lamarche and Ken Norman
Part 1: Human Rights Institutions in Canada: Manoeuvring in a Context of Hostility and Political Tension Reflections on Government Hostility, Systemic Discrimination, and Human Rights Institutions Shelagh Day Governments as Interpreters and Shapers of Human Rights Gwen Brodsky Saskatchewan’s One Bright Shining Moment, At Least It Seemed So at the Time Ken Norman Human Rights Systems: Are They Fair? Pearl Eliadis
Part 2: The Evolution of Human Rights Complaints Management in Canada: Transformative Justice or Efficient Justice? Saskatchewan and the Gatekeeping Debate Genevieve Leslie Ontario and the Direct Access Model to Human Rights Michelle Flaherty The Paris Principles Twenty Years After Maxwell Yalden
Part 3: Discrimination and Political Struggle: Three Case Studies Sexual Harassment: A Feminist Phrase That Transformed the Workplace Constance Backhouse From Sexual to Psychological Harassment: One Step Forward, Twenty-Five Years Back for Women’s Equality at Work? Rachel Cox The Hate Speech Diversion Richard Moon
Part 4: Human Rights Commissions and Policy-Making: Naming – Engaging – Implementing Ontario Human Rights Commission Promotion Activities: The Experience of Responding to Racial Profiling by Police Shaheen Azmi The Québec Human Rights Commission and the Construction of the Concept of Social Profiling Paul Eid
Part 5: The Future of Human Rights Institutions in Canada: Interdisciplinary and Interinstitutional Collaboration The Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Framework for Mapping and Addressing Competing Human Rights Lorne Foster and Lesley Jacobs Emerging Human Rights Institutions: The Case of Museums in a Human Rights Culture Jennifer Carter and Jennifer A Orange
Selected Readings Index About the Editors
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Published 28 February 2014
Publisher Irwin Law (Canada)
Paperback/436pp
ISBN 9781552213520
Australian RRP $70.00
International Price $66.00
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Law - Canadian Law
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