Transforming rights : reflections from the front lines / / Maxwell Yalden
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| Autore: |
Yalden Max
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| Titolo: |
Transforming rights : reflections from the front lines / / Maxwell Yalden
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.0971 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human rights - Canada |
| Language policy - Canada | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Canada Languages Law and legislation |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transforming rights |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9733-4 |
| 1-4426-7016-9 | |
| 1-4426-9798-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818468003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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