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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786928603321

Autore

Eliadis Pearl

Titolo

Speaking out on human rights : debating Canada's human rights system / / Pearl Eliadis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, Canada : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7735-9184-2

0-7735-9183-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 p.)

Disciplina

323.0971

Soggetti

Human rights - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.