RECONCEIVING HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE FOR

THE NEW SOCIAL RIGHTS PARADIGM

October 15, 2011

Room 102, Fauteux Hall, University of Ottawa

Draft Papers

9 h 30 – 10 h 00

Martha Jackman, Welcome, introductions & logistics

10 h 00 – 11 h 15

• Bruce Porter, Social Rights in Anti-Poverty and Housing Strategies: Making the Connection

• Vincent Calderhead & Claire McNeil, The Charter and the Regulation of Poor People’s Expenses: The State’s Duty to Protect

• Vincent Greason, Poverty as a Human Rights Violation (Except in Government Anti-Poverty Strategies)

11 h 15 – 11 h 45

Refreshment break

11 h 45 – 13 h 00

• Constance MacIntosh, Countering the Watering Down of Social Rights in Indigenous Communities: Possibilities from Fiduciary Law for Litigating for Health Protection
  

• Alana Klein, Participatory Approaches in the Health Care Context

• Martha Jackman, Condition Critical: Creating a Social-Rights Framework for Health Care Decision-Making

  
  

13 h 00 – 14 h 30

Lunch

14 h 30 – 15 h 45

• Kerri Froc, It’s not who you are but What you do: Women’s Right to Just Conditions of Work and the Conduct/Status Trap

• Shelagh Day, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada and the Standard of Due Diligence

• Barbara Cameron, Budgeting for Women’s Human Rights
  

  
  

15 h 45 – 16 h 15

Refreshment break

16 h 15 – 17 h 30

• Gwen Brodsky, McIvor v. Canada: Communication No. 2020/2010 Submitted for Consideration under the First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR – Why is Equality for Aboriginal Women Too Much to Ask For?

• Margot Young, Shooting Up and Sleeping Rough: Taking B.C.’s Social Justice Issues to Court

• Faisal Bhabha, The Limits of Law as an Agent of Transformation: Reflecting on Human Rights Practice
  

  
  

17 h 30 – 17 h 45

Bruce Porter, Closing remarks

20 h 00

Dinner, Le Café, National Arts Centre

Papers not being formally presented at the Symposium:

• Yvonne Boyer, First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women’s Health and the Law

• Lucie Lamarche, Human Rights Impact Assessment and Public Policy Making: Is Doing Good the Good Thing to do in an Era of Neo-Liberalism?

• Sylvie Paquerot, Socio-economic Rights and the Environment: A Path to Political Responsibility?

• Lorne Sossin & Andrea Hill, Social Rights and Administrative Justice: A Bridge too far or the Final Frontier?

• Marie-Êve Sylvestre, A Right to the city for the Homeless? Criminalization and Control of Public Spaces

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