Author(s)	Ken Norman; Lucie Lamarche; Shelagh Day
Publication Year	2014
Publisher	Irwin Law Inc.

ISBN: 9781552213520

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14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions

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Today, many human rights commissions are threatened or are no longer in existence. This book argues in support of our human rights institutions, including the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights. These arguments debunk current challenges to our human rights commissions and tribunals. Further, they chronicle the ways in which governments have backed away from the project of growing a culture of human rights, and of maintaining the role of human rights commissions to promote and protect human rights. In sum, this book will help readers to evaluate criticism of human rights institutions so that Canadians can strengthen current systems and ensure that they are responding to today’s problems in the field of human rights.

Contributors

Shelagh Day

Shelagh Day is an expert on human rights with many years of experience working with governments and non-governmental organizations, the President and Senior Editor of the Canadian Human Rights Reporter, as well as a Director of the Poverty and Human Rights Centre in Vancouver.

Lucie Lamarche

Lucie Lamarche is a professor of law at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). She is the former Gordon F Henderson Chair in Human Rights and the former Research Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre of the University of Ottawa.

Ken Norman

Ken Norman is a professor of Law at the University of Saskatchewan.

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Editors' Introduction Introduction to a collection of positive and negative reflections on the state of human rights institutions in Canada. View	Ken Norman; Lucie Lamarche; Shelagh Day	15	2014	$1.50
Reflections on Government Hostility, Systemic discrimination, and Human Rights Institutions Discussion of the nature and extent of government hostility to human rights and human rights institutions, and the capacities that human rights commissions, in particular, have to address … View	Shelagh Day	35	2014	$3.50
Governments as Interpreters and Shapers of Human Rights Discussion of the role and obligations of governments and their legal representatives, as interpreters and shapers of human rights law, when they are engaged in statutory human rights litigation. View	Gwen Brodsky	32	2014	$3.20
Saskatchewan's One Bright Shining Moment, At Least It Seemed So at the Time Examination of the enactment of The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code in 1979. View	Ken Norman	24	2014	$2.40
Human Rights Systems Discussion responding to misunderstandings and criticisms about the role and legitimacy of human rights commissions and tribunals. View	Pearl Eliadis	27	2014	$2.70
Saskatchewan and the Gatekeeping Debate Discussion of the gatekeeping function of human rights commissions, using 2011 amendments to The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code as a case study. View	Genevieve Leslie	27	2014	$2.70
Ontario and the Direct Access Model to Human Rights Examination of Ontario’s shift from a commission based system to a direct access model of human rights. View	Michelle Flaherty	22	2014	$2.20
The Paris Principles Twenty Years After Discussion of the principles and criteria for the establishment and governance of National Human Rights Institutions declared in Paris in 1991. View	Maxwell Yalden	16	2014	$1.60
Sexual Harassment Personal reflections on a 25-year campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace. View	Constance Backhouse	28	2014	$2.80
From Sexual to Psychological Harassment Discussion of the implications of framing sexual or racial or other kinds of discriminatory harassment in the workplace as psychological harassment. View	Rachel Cox	42	2014	$4.20
The Hate Speech Diversion Discussion of hate speech regulation in Canada and public attacks on human rights laws and institutions. View	Richard Moon	24	2014	$2.40
Ontario Human Rights Commission Promotion Activities Discussion of the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s involvement in responding to racial profiling by police. View	Shaheen Azmi	23	2014	$2.30
The Québec Human Rights Commission and the Construction of the Concept of Social Profiling Discussion of the concept of social profiling generally, and social profiling in Montréal as a form of systemic discrimination induced by law enforcement authorities’ official … View	Paul Eid	30	2014	$3.00
The Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Framework for Mapping and Addressing Competing Human Rights Discussion of the policy of the Ontario Human Rights Commission to competing human rights claims. View	Lorne Foster	23	2014	$2.30
Emerging Human Rights Institutions Discussion of the potential of cultural institutions to bridge the gap between inspiration and cynicism found in human rights discourses. View	Jennifer A Orange; Jennifer Carter	20	2014	$2.00
Selected Readings List of books, periodicals, reports, and other publications relating to human rights. View	Ken Norman; Lucie Lamarche; Shelagh Day	3	2014	$0.30

14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions

Contributors

Shelagh Day

Lucie Lamarche

Ken Norman

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