| Physical description |
vii, 441 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
International human rights in anti-poverty and housing strategies : making the connection / Bruce Porter -- Rights-based strategies to address homelessness and poverty in Canada : the Charter framework / Martha Jackman and Bruce Porter -- Poverty as a human rights violation (except in governmental anti-poverty strategies) / Vincent Greason -- Accountability regimes for federal social transfers : an exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction / Barbara Cameron -- Challenging discriminatory and punitive responses to homelessness in Canada / Marie-Eve Sylvestre and Céline Bellot -- Immutability hauntings : socio-economic status and women's right to just conditions of work under Section 15 of the Charter / Kerri A. Froc -- Litigating to advance the substantive equality rights of people with disabilities / Gwen Brodsky, Shelagh Day, and Yvonne Peters -- Access to energy : how form overtook substance and disempowered the poor in Nova Scotia / Claire McNeil and Vincent Calderhead -- Right to safe water and crown-aboriginal fiduciary law : litigating a resolution to the public health hazards of on-reserve water problems / Constance MacIntosh -- Participation and accountability : new avenues for human rights engagement with the distribution of health resources in Canada / Alana Klein -- Social rights and administrative justice / Lorne Sossin and Andrea Hill -- Environmental concerns and the interdependence of human rights : a path to political responsibility? / Sylvie Paquerot, translated from the French by Sadie Scapillato -- Has public protest gone to the dogs? A social rights approach to social protest law in Canada / Graham Mayeda -- Sleeping rough and shooting up : taking British Columbia's urban justice issues to court / Margot Young. |
| Other formats |
Issued also in electronic format. |
| Other author |
Jackman, Martha, editor.
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Porter, Bruce, 1952- editor.
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| Subject |
Human rights -- Canada.
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Social rights -- Canada.
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Human rights.
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| ISBN |
9781552213742 |
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1552213749 |
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9781552213759 |
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