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Resources

Martha Jackman | Bruce Porter | Gwen Brodsky | Barbara Cameron | Shelagh Day | Vincent Greason
Lucie Lamarche| Margot Young | Leilani Farha | Sharon McIvor | Yvonne Peters |
Useful Links | Presentations

Book: Advancing Social Rights in Canada 

The CURA researchers are collaborating to create a comprehensive resource regarding social rights in Canada. Read it here: Advancing Social Rights in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, forthcoming, 2014).

Social Rights in South Africa and Canada: A Conversation with Justice Zak Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Canada Without Poverty, the Social Rights Advocacy Centre and the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation hosted an informal discussion between Justice Zak Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and social rights advocates in Ontario on February 15, 2013.

Justice Yacoob authored the Constitutional Court's decision in the world-renowned right to housing case, Grootboom . The conversation focused on what advocates in Canada can learn from the South African experience.

The conversation was moderated by Bruce Porter (Social Rights Advocacy Centre) with panelists Leilani Farha (Canada Without Poverty), Ruth Goba (Commissioner, Ontario Human Rights Commission), and Member of Parliament, Craig Scott (Toronto-Danforth).

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The Supreme Court and the Right of Inclusion after Moore

On February 21 2013, Yvonne Peters, Shelagh Day, and Dr. Gwen Brodsky participated in a panel discussion at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. They discussed how our rights to inclusion and accommodation under Canadian human rights law have evolved up to the Supreme Court decision in Moore v British Columbia.

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Sharon McIvor

See also: Sharon McIvor's Presentations and Testimony to Parliamentary Committees

Video: Briefing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Regarding the Situation of the Right to Life of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
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See also: Briefing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia (March 28, 2012).

Read more: The Native Women's Association of Canada's petition for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Sharon McIvor is the petitioner in McIvor v Canada, and argied that the sections of the Indian Act which determine Indian status are discriminatory under s.15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Read more about McIvor v Canada (Registrar of Indian and Northern Affairs)

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Lucie Lamarche

See also: Lucie Lamarche's Presentations and Testimony to Parliamentary Committees

Vidéo:Forum du 25 avril 2012: les obligation de lÉtat
Organized by la Ligue des droits et libertés

 

Lucie Lamarche, Revue de la Ligue des droits et libertés, L'accès à la justice et les droits humains, Automne 2013, 49-50.

Lucie Lamarche, Ligue des droits et libertés du Québec, Les indicateurs de droits humains : outils de mesure nécessaire ou technicisation des droits ?, 2013, 16 p.,

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Yvonne Peters

See also: Yvonne Peters' Presentations and Testimony to Parliamentary Committees

Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship - 2008-December 2014
Yvonne Peters, CCD, and Dr. Michael J. Prince, University of Victoria, have lead a large-scale study focusing on poverty and people with disabilities. Their research concerns the lived experience of people with disabilities in poverty, and recommends strategies for reducing poverty in the disability community.
Organized by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities

A missed wedding, a Landmark Protest and a Legal Victory. Council of Canadians with Disabilities (April 16 2012).

Personal Reflections on the Cross-Disability Movement, Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians.

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Gwen Brodsky

See also: Gwen Brodsky's Presentations and Testimony to Parliamentary Committees

Gwen Brodsky is counsel for the petitioner in McIvor v Canada, and argied that the sections of the Indian Act which determine Indian status are discriminatory under s.15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Read more about McIvor v Canada (Registrar of Indian and Northern Affairs)

Are B.C.'s welfare limits legal? The Tyee (December 17, 2003).

What do Rights have to do with it? - What is the point of talking about human rights in relation to cuts to social programmes? (May 21, 2002), The Poverty and Human Rights Centre

Media Release: Supreme Court of Canada Rules Alberta's Human Rights Laws Discriminate Against Lesbians and Gays, Women's Legal Education and Actions Fund (April 2, 1998)


Barbara Cameron

See also: Barbara Cameron's Presentations and Testimony to Parliamentary Committees

The Canada Social Transfer & the Implementation of Social Rights: A Discussion Paper prepared for the Feminist Alliance for International Action, October 2005.

A Legislative Framework for a Pan Canadian System of Child Care Services: A Discussion Paper prepared for the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (December 1, 2004).

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Shelagh Day

See also: Shelagh Day's Presentations and Testimony to Parliamentary Committees

Let's Strengthen the Yukon Human Rights System, Yukon News (March 14, 2014)

Progress on Equality Stalled, Herizons Magazine (Winter 2011).

Remarks: International Women's Day Breakfast, B.C. Federation of Labour (March 8, 2011).

Remarks: Challenges and Strategies, A Conference convened by the Governor General of Canada Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean (September 9, 10, 2010)

Canada's Human Rights Institutions at Risk, Women's Court of Canada (July 28, 2010).

Shelagh Day, Proposed Guiding Principles regarding the Possibility of a Gender Equality Act/Status of Women Act (Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, 2005)

Take the Welfare Time Limit Off the Books (British Columbia), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (February 24, 2004).

UN singles out BC Government on women's rights, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (March 1, 2003) (With Margot Young).

Shelagh Day & Natalie McMullen, A Decade of Going Backwards: Canada in the Post-Beijing Era (January 2005) Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, Response to UN Questionnaire on Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly (2000).

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