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The Right to Housing under International Human Rights Law (October 2002)
Not everyone may realize that governments in Canada are obligated to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. However, Canada is a signatory to international human rights treaties that oblige governments to address conditions of poverty, and to ensure that everyone has an adequate standard of living, including adequate housing. The central human rights treaty concerning the right to housing [...]
Posted in Law Sheets Also tagged housing, human rights law, human rights treaties, Q & As
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 [...]
Posted in Government Submissions Also tagged domestic human rights law, economic rights, social rights
Human rights treaty implementation: The Consensus on Canada