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Human rights plunge into the past (April 2002)
Human rights in British Columbia may be about to plunge backwards by twenty years. In 1983 Bill Bennett abolished the Human Rights Commission, fired all the Commissioners and staff, and narrowed human rights legislation in one sweeping assault. Though a little slower off the mark, the current government seems poised to substantially weaken the province’s [...]
Posted in Commentary Tagged British Columbia, Human Rights Commission, human rights law
Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (February 2002)
Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, prepared by the Poverty and Human Rights Project, endorsed by anti-poverty groups and groups representing Aboriginal people, people with disabilities, seniors, children, and women, notifying the treaty body of planned cuts to social assistance and legal aid in British Columbia. Submission to the [...]
Posted in Submissions to UN Tagged British Columbia, social program cuts, United Nations
Poverty is a Human Rights Violation (December 2001)
This paper is about obstacles to an understanding that poverty is a human rights violation.
Posted in Articles & Reports Tagged Gosselin v. A.G. Québec, human rights, poverty
Recommendations to Heritage Canada regarding information that should be included in Canada’s 4th report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (October 2001)
A letter from the Poverty and Human Rights Project to Heritage Canada on four issues which are of critical importance to the overall approach taken by Canada as a State Party to the implementation of economic and social rights in response to a request for input from non-governmental organizations into Canada’s fourth report on its compliance with the International Covenant on [...]
What Do Rights Have To Do With It? (May 2002)