Transforming rights : reflections from the front lines / / Maxwell Yalden |
Autore | Yalden Max |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 323.0971 |
Soggetto topico |
Human rights - Canada
Language policy - Canada |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4426-7016-9
1-4426-9798-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1. Personal File -- 2. School, University, Graduate Studies -- 3. A Public Service Career -- 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 Reactions -- 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 -- 4. The Canadian Experience -- 5. Discrimination -- 6. Multiculturalism -- 7. Employment Equity -- 8. Pay Equity -- 9. Aboriginal Rights -- PART FOUR: HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- 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 -- PART FIVE: SUMMING UP AND CONCLUSIONS -- 1. Language Rights -- 2. Human Rights -- Appendix: Official Languages and Human Rights Commissioners -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458659903321 |
Yalden Max | ||
Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Transforming rights : reflections from the front lines / / Maxwell Yalden |
Autore | Yalden Max |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 323.0971 |
Soggetto topico |
Human rights - Canada
Language policy - Canada |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4426-9733-4
1-4426-7016-9 1-4426-9798-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791659703321 |
Yalden Max | ||
Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Transforming rights : reflections from the front lines / / Maxwell Yalden |
Autore | Yalden Max |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 323.0971 |
Soggetto topico |
Human rights - Canada
Language policy - Canada |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4426-9733-4
1-4426-7016-9 1-4426-9798-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818468003321 |
Yalden Max | ||
Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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