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Transforming Rights
Reflections from the Front Lines
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Maxwell Yalden
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
Transforming Rights draws on Yalden's extensive experience in rights work to provide a personal assessment of how issues of human rights and language rights have evolved over the past forty years, both within Canada and internationally.
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Yalden Maxwell :
Maxwell Yalden is a Companion of the Order of Canada and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
xiii - PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
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1. Personal File
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2. School, University, Graduate Studies
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3. A Public Service Career
7 - PART TWO: LANGUAGE RIGHTS
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1. The Background to Language Reform
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2. The Origins of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
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3. The Royal Commission Recommendations and Government Reactions
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4. Summary of Commission Proposals and Government Reactions
107 - PART THREE: HUMAN RIGHTS
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1. Introduction
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2. The Universality of Human Rights Norms
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3. Perspectives on Human Rights
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4. The Canadian Experience
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5. Discrimination
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6. Multiculturalism
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7. Employment Equity
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8. Pay Equity
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9. Aboriginal Rights
186 - PART FOUR: HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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1. International Human Rights Machinery
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2. The High Commissioner for Human Rights
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3. Regional Human Rights Machinery
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4. The Human Rights Covenants and the Treaty Bodies
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5. Canada and International Human Rights Machinery
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6. Canada and Human Rights Violations
215 - PART FIVE: SUMMING UP AND CONCLUSIONS
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1. Language Rights
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2. Human Rights
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Appendix: Official Languages and Human Rights Commissioners
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Notes
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Select Bibliography
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Index
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December 31, 2009
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
