Speaking out on human rights : debating Canada's human rights system /

Speaking out on human rights : debating Canada's human rights system /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Eliadis, F. Pearl, 1959-, author.
Imprint:	Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	xxiv, 429 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Canadian Human Rights Commission. Canadian Human Rights Commission. Human rights -- Canada. Human rights. Canada.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9989448

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ISBN:	9780773543041 (cloth) 077354304X (cloth) 9780773543058 (paper) 0773543058 (paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-393) and index.
Summary:	"Shows how our human rights system plays a unique and important role in the rights revolution both in Canada and internationally and offers promising avenues for its future development."--Publishers website
Other form:	Eliadis, F. Pearl, 1959-, author. Speaking out on human rights.

Table of Contents:

Introducing Human Rights Systems
Human Rights Systems Then and Now
Do We Still Need Them?
Are They Fair?
Signal Cases, Rights Conflicts, and Building a Human Rights Culture
Ideas for the Way Forward.