Advancing social rights in Canada
By: edited by Martha Jackman, Bruce Porter
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781552213742
Subjects: Social rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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