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Women and the Canada Social Transfer: Securing the Social Union

By phrc | Published: May 30, 2011

Gwen Brodsky & Shelagh Day, Women and the Canada Social Transfer: Securing the Social Union, (Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 2007) Social assistance and civil legal aid are in trouble in Canada. These social programs are vital to the realization of women’s rights to equality and security of the person. Since the repeal of the […]

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Human Rights and Poverty: A Twenty-First Century Tribute to J.S. Woodsworth and a Call for Human Rights

By phrc | Published: May 30, 2011

Gwen Brodsky, “Human Rights and Poverty: A Twenty-First Century Tribute to J.S. Woodsworth and a Call for Human Rights, in Human RIghts, Human Welfare and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth, J. Pulkingham ed., (Toronto:U of T Press, 2010) The Canada for which J.S. Woodsworth and the Co-operative Common- wealth Federation (CCF) party […]

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The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada

By phrc | Published: May 30, 2011

Gwen Brodsky, “The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada” in M. Young, S. Boyd, G.Brodsky and S. Day, eds. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007) Rights to equality and life, liberty, and security of the person in our modern Canadian Constitution must be understood to encompass an obligation […]

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Access to Justice at Issue in R v. Caron

By phrc | Published: May 30, 2011

The Poverty and Human Rights Centre intervened as a member of the Equality Rights Coalition in the Supreme Court of Canada case R v. Caron 2011 SCC 5.  The other members of the coalition were the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, the Charter Committee on Poverty Issues and the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund. […]

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Victoria (City) v. Adams: Advancing the Right to Shelter

By phrc | Published: May 30, 2011

Victoria (City) v. Adams is an important B.C. case about social and economic rights. The issue in this case was whether a City bylaw which required homeless people to remove tents and any overhead protection, while sleeping in Cridge Park, violated their right to life, liberty and security of the person. This is a key case […]

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Nothing to report: Submission of the B.C. CEDAW Group

By phrc | Published: April 7, 2010

Submission of The British Columbia Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (B.C. CEDAW). 2010 Report to The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women regarding progress in implementing Priority Recommendations made in Canada. Submission title: Nothing to Report (PDF) THE B.C. CEDAW GROUP IS A COALITION of […]

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PHRC Intervenes to Support Homeless People

By phrc | Published: June 9, 2009

The Poverty and Human Rights Centre is intervening to support homeless people in the Tent City Case. The appeal will be heard in the British Columbia Court of Appeal on June 10 and 11, 2009. The PHRC was granted leave to intervene on April 3, 2009, by Groberman J.A. of the BCCA. The PHRC position […]

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Inaction and Non-compliance: British Columbia’s approach to Women’s Inequality

By phrc | Published: April 7, 2008

Submission of the B.C. CEDAW Group to the United nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the occasion of the Committee’s review of Canada’s 6th & 7th reports. The B.C. CEDAW Group is a coalition of women’s non-governmental and non-profit British Columbia organizations that are committed to advancing the equality interests of […]

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The Role of International Social and Economic Rights in the Interpretation of Domestic Law in Canada

By phrc | Published: February 1, 2008

This Law Sheet, produced by the Poverty and Human Rights Centre, is concerned with the role that international human rights law can play in the interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other laws in Canada. It is intended to assist lawyers in their advocacy work before courts and tribunals. It is […]

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Human rights treaty implementation: The Consensus on Canada

By phrc | Published: January 1, 2007

This Law Sheet identifies overlapping areas of human rights treaty obligation in which various international monitoring bodies have found Canada’s performance to be unsatisfactory. The extent of the consensus regarding Canada’s non-compliance with its human rights obligations in particular areas, that exists among the international monitoring bodies applying different treaties, serves to highlight some of […]

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