Transforming Rights : Reflections from the Front Lines /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Yalden, Max
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Grundrecht
Recht
Sprachpolitik
Language policy.
Language and languages > Law and legislation.
Human rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom.
Politique linguistique > Canada.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Canada.
Language policy > Canada.
Human rights > Canada.
Kanada
Canada.
Canada > Langues > Droit.
Canada > Languages > Law and legislation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Introduction
  • 1. Personal file
  • 2. School, university, graduate studies
  • 3. A public service career
  • pt. 2. 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 reactions
  • 4. Summary of commission proposals and government reactions
  • pt. 3. Human rights
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The universality of human rights norms
  • 3. Perspectives on human rights
  • 4. The Canadian experience
  • 5. Discrimination
  • 6. Multiculturalism
  • 7. Employment equity
  • 8. Pay equity
  • 9. Aboriginal rights
  • pt. 4. 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 bodies
  • 5. Canada and international human rights machinery
  • 6. Canada and human rights violations
  • pt. 5. Summing up and conclusions
  • 1. Language rights
  • 2. Human rights
  • Appendix. Official languages and human rights commissioners.

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