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Transforming Rights : Reflections from the Front Lines.
Transforming Rights draws on Yalden's extensive experience in rights work to provide a personal assessment of how issues of human rights and language rights have evolved over the past forty years, both within Canada and internationally.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; 1 Personal File; 2 School, University, Graduate Studies; 3 A Public Service Career; a) The Department of External Affairs; b) The Secretary of State's Department and the Department of Communications; c) Official Languages Commissioner; d) Canadian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg; e) Human Rights Commissioner; f) Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee; PART TWO: LANGUAGE RIGHTS; 1 The Background to Language Reform; 2 The Origins of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
- 3 The Royal Commission Recommendations and Government Reactionsa) Preliminary Report; b) General Introduction; c) The Official Languages; d) Education; e) The Work World; f) Other Ethnic Groups; g) The Federal Capital; h) Voluntary Associations; 4 Summary of Commission Proposals and Government Reactions; PART THREE: HUMAN RIGHTS; 1 Introduction; 2 The Universality of Human Rights Norms; 3 Perspectives on Human Rights; a) Narrow and Broad Approaches; b) Rights and Responsibilities; c) The Pendulum Effect and the Rights Industry; d) Rights and the Press; e) Conflicting Rights.
- 4 The Canadian Experiencea) Policy Objectives; b) Implementation; c) The Charter, Legislation, and the Courts; d) Ombudsman Offices and Human Rights Commissions; 5 Discrimination; a) Women's Rights and Sex Discrimination; b) Sexual Orientation; c) Age Discrimination; d) Disability; e) Race, Ethnic Origin, and Religion; 6 Multiculturalism; 7 Employment Equity; 8 Pay Equity; 9 Aboriginal Rights; PART FOUR: HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Terminology; 1 International Human Rights Machinery; 2 The High Commissioner for Human Rights; 3 Regional Human Rights Machinery.
- 4 The Human Rights Covenants and the Treaty Bodies5 Canada and International Human Rights Machinery; 6 Canada and Human Rights Violations; PART FIVE: SUMMING UP AND CONCLUSIONS; 1 Language Rights; 2 Human Rights; Appendix: Official Languages and Human Rights Commissioners; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y.