Women And The Canadian Human Rights Act

Author : Canada. Status of Women Canada,Donna Greschner
Publisher : Status of Women
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : UCBK:C070750535

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Women and the Canadian Human Rights Act by Canada. Status of Women Canada,Donna Greschner Pdf

The first report in this compilation examines whether the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) should contain an open-ended clause that would prohibit discrimination on grounds other than those specifically listed in the Act. The second report examines whether, and how, social & economic rights can be effectively protected under the CHRA. It reviews findings & recommendations of United Nations treaty monitoring bodies, studies the issue from a domestic perspective, and considers how new social & economic rights guarantees under the CHRA should be formulated. The third report discusses whether adding "social condition" to the CHRA's grounds of discrimination would provide protection from discrimination occurring because of the negative stereotyping of people with low incomes. The final report analyzes 453 sexual harassment complaints filed by women against both corporate & individual respondents between 1978 and 1993. It examines dispositions, remedies, length of time to case resolution, and the monetary compensation awarded.

Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858434

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Canada’s Rights Revolution by Dominique Clément Pdf

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. This book offers a unique perspective on infamous human rights controversies and argues that the idea of human rights has historically been highly statist while grassroots activism has been at the heart of the most profound human rights advances.

Author : Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:49089791

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The Constitution Act, 1982 by Canada Pdf

Author : Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015049007019

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Women and the Constitution in Canada by Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Department of Secretary of State of Canada
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015019183550

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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women by Anonim Pdf

The Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women is the main international legal instrument which sets minimum standards of equality between the sexes. Canada ratified the Convention in 1981 and is required to provide periodic reports. This second report includes basic general information on Canada's division of power and legislating authority, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, human rights legislation, and other mechanisms related to the Convention's mandate. The document also reviews the measures adopted by the federal, provincial and territorial governments.

Author : Carol Agocs
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442668522

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Employment Equity in Canada by Carol Agocs Pdf

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today. Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, the contributors – both scholars and practitioners of employment policy – evaluate the history and influence of the Abella Report, the impact of Canada’s employment equity legislation on equality in the workplace, and the future of substantive equality in an environment where the Canadian government is increasingly hostile to intervention in the workplace. They compare Canada’s legal and policy choices to those of the United States and to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and examine ways in which the concept of employment equity might be expanded to embrace other vulnerable communities. Their observations will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of Canadian employment and equity policy.

Author : Kevin D. MacNeill
Publisher : Aurora, Ont. : Canada Law Book
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Discrimination in employment
ISBN : 0888043945

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The Duty to Accommodate in Employment by Kevin D. MacNeill Pdf

Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774827522

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Equality Deferred by Dominique Clément Pdf

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation, demonstrating how governments inhibit the application of their own laws, and how it falls to social movements to create, promote, and enforce these laws. Focusing on British Columbia – the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex – Clément documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. The province was at the forefront of the women’s movement, which produced the country’s first rape crisis centres, first feminist newspaper, and first battered women’s shelters. And yet nowhere else in the country was human rights law more contested. For an entire generation, the province’s two dominant political parties fought to impose their respective vision of the human rights state. This history of human rights law, based on previously undisclosed records of British Columbia’s human rights commission, begins with the province’s first equal pay legislation in 1953 and ends with the collapse of the country’s most progressive human rights legal regime in 1984. This book is not only a testament to the revolutionary impact of human rights on Canadian law but also a reminder that it takes more than laws to effect transformative social change.

Author : Anne Hellum,Henriette Sinding Aasen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107276734

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Women's Human Rights by Anne Hellum,Henriette Sinding Aasen Pdf

As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in comparison and interaction with other equality and anti-discrimination mechanisms. The studies demonstrate how state and non-state actors have invoked, adopted or resisted the CEDAW and related instruments in different legal, political, economic and socio-cultural contexts, and how the various international, regional and national regimes have drawn inspiration and learned from each other.

Author : Walter Surma Tarnopolsky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780773595439

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The Canadian Bill of Rights by Walter Surma Tarnopolsky Pdf

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780889615229

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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics by Constance Backhouse Pdf

Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system. Expanding the concept of “heroism” beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canada’s lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other women’s courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression. Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape women’s encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions. This book was co-published with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771121651

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Human Rights in Canada by Dominique Clément Pdf

This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and foreign policy. Human Rights in Canada is one of the first sociological studies of human rights in Canada. It explains that human rights are a distinct social practice, and it documents those social conditions that made human rights significant at a particular historical moment. A central theme in this book is that human rights derive from society rather than abstract legal principles. Therefore, we can identify the boundaries and limits of Canada’s rights culture at different moments in our history. Until the 1970s, Canadians framed their grievances with reference to Christianity or British justice rather than human rights. A historical sociological approach to human rights reveals how rights are historically contingent, and how new rights claims are built upon past claims. This book explores governments’ tendency to suppress rights in periods of perceived emergency; how Canada’s rights culture was shaped by state formation; how social movements have advanced new rights claims; the changing discourse of rights in debates surrounding the constitution; how the international human rights movement shaped domestic politics and foreign policy; and much more. In addition to drawing on secondary literature in law, history, sociology, and political science, this study looked to published government documents, litigation and case law, archival research, newspapers, opinion polls, and materials produced by non-governmental organizations.

Author : Canada. Department of Justice,Helena P. Orton,National Association of Women and the Law
Publisher : The Association
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 0920853641

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Submission of the National Association of Women and the Law to the Federal Department of Justice Concerning the Review of the Canadian Human Rights Act, July 29, 1986 by Canada. Department of Justice,Helena P. Orton,National Association of Women and the Law Pdf

Author : Dorothy E. Chunn,Susan Boyd,Hester Lessard
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774840361

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Reaction and Resistance by Dorothy E. Chunn,Susan Boyd,Hester Lessard Pdf

In this timely volume, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy � child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault � and in a number of institutional sites, such as courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy. Collectively, their studies paint a complicated, often contradictory, picture of feminism, law, and social change, offering feminists and activists empirically grounded knowledge to develop legal and political strategies for change.

Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : Law and Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0774827505

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Equality Deferred by Dominique Clément Pdf

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation. Focusing on British Columbia - the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex - he documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. Drawing on previously undisclosed human rights commission records, Clément explores the rise and fall of what was once the country's most progressive human rights legal regime and reveals how political divisions and social movements shaped the human rights state. This book is not only a testament to the revolutionary impact of human rights on Canadian law but also a reminder that it takes more than laws to effect transformative social change.