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B.C. CEDAW Report: British Columbia Moves Backwards on Women’s Equality
B.C. CEDAW Report: British Columbia Moves Backwards on Women’s Equality, prepared by the Poverty and Human Rights Project for 12 women’s and anti-poverty organizations in British Columbia, submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the occasion of the review of Canada’s 5th report on its compliance with the [...]
Posted in Submissions to UN Also tagged British Columbia, social rights, United Nations, women's poverty
Beyond the Social and Economic Rights Debate: Substantive Equality Speaks to Poverty (2002)
An emerging issue in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms1 jurisprudence is the defeat of poverty-related challenges based on their characterization as ‘social and economic’ rights claims. In a variety of cases, governments have argued, with some success in lower courts, that the Charter is a negative rights instrument—a document of civil and political rights rather than of social [...]
Posted in Articles & Reports Also tagged Charter, women's 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 [...]
Posted in Submissions to Government Also tagged Canadian government, domestic human rights law, social rights
The Role of International Social and Economic Rights in the Interpretation of Domestic Law in Canada