- Gebundenes Buch
- Merkliste
- Auf die Merkliste
- Bewerten Bewerten
- Teilen
- Produkt teilen
- Produkterinnerung
- Produkterinnerung
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.
Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
- Jane AddamsNewer Ideals of Peace17,99 €
- Jane AddamsNewer Ideals of Peace24,99 €
- Max BeerThe life and teaching of Karl Marx19,99 €
- Dennis TateShifting Perspectives132,99 €
- Elizabeth Frances PerryTribute to Benjamin Franklin Perry ex-Governor of South Carolina16,90 €
- Mattias DesmetThe Psychology of Totalitarianism25,99 €
- Peter DahlgrenThe Political Web37,99 €
-
-
-
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.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: University of Toronto Press
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 567g
- ISBN-13: 9781442640078
- ISBN-10: 1442640073
- Artikelnr.: 26820876
- Verlag: University of Toronto Press
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 567g
- ISBN-13: 9781442640078
- ISBN-10: 1442640073
- Artikelnr.: 26820876
By Maxwell Yalden
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Introduction
1 Personal File
2 School, University, Graduate Studies
3 A Public Service Career
a) The Department of External Affairs
b) The Secretary of State's Department and the Department of Communications
c) Official Languages Commissioner
d) Canadian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg
e) Human Rights Commissioner
f) Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee
Part Two: Language Rights
1 The Background to Language Reform
2 The Origins of the Royal Commission on Biligualism and Biculturalism
3 The Royal Commission Recommendations and Government Reactions
a) Preliminary Report
b) General Introduction
c) The Official Languages
d) Education
e) The Work World
f) Other Ethnic Groups
g) The Federal Capital
h) Voluntary Associations
4 Summary of Commission Proposals and Government Reactions
Part Three: Human Rights
1 Introduction
2 The Universality of Human Rights Norms
3 Perspectives on Human Rights
a) Narrow and Broad Approaches
b) Rights and Responsibilities
c) The Pendulum Effect and the Rights Industry
d) Rights and the Press
e) Conflicting Rights
4 The Canadian Experience
a) Policy Objectives
b) Implementation
c) The Charter, Legislation, and the Courts
d) Ombudsman Offices and Human Rights Commissions
5 Discrimination
a) Women's Rights and Sex Discrimination
b) Sexual Orientation
c) Age Discrimination
d) Disability
e) Race, Ethnic Origin, and Religion
6 Multiculturalism
a) Background
b) Quebec - The Bouchard-Taylor Commission
7 Employment Equity
8 Pay Equity
9 Aboriginal Rights
Part Four: Human Rights and International Relations
Terminology
1 International Human Rights Machinery
2 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 Regional Human Rights Machinery
4 The Human Rights Covenants and the Treaty Bodies
5 Canada and International Human Rights Machinery
6 Canada and Human Rights Violations
Part Five: Summing Up and Conclusions
1 Language Rights
2 Human Rights
Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Part One: Introduction
1 Personal File
2 School, University, Graduate Studies
3 A Public Service Career
a) The Department of External Affairs
b) The Secretary of State's Department and the Department of Communications
c) Official Languages Commissioner
d) Canadian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg
e) Human Rights Commissioner
f) Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee
Part Two: Language Rights
1 The Background to Language Reform
2 The Origins of the Royal Commission on Biligualism and Biculturalism
3 The Royal Commission Recommendations and Government Reactions
a) Preliminary Report
b) General Introduction
c) The Official Languages
d) Education
e) The Work World
f) Other Ethnic Groups
g) The Federal Capital
h) Voluntary Associations
4 Summary of Commission Proposals and Government Reactions
Part Three: Human Rights
1 Introduction
2 The Universality of Human Rights Norms
3 Perspectives on Human Rights
a) Narrow and Broad Approaches
b) Rights and Responsibilities
c) The Pendulum Effect and the Rights Industry
d) Rights and the Press
e) Conflicting Rights
4 The Canadian Experience
a) Policy Objectives
b) Implementation
c) The Charter, Legislation, and the Courts
d) Ombudsman Offices and Human Rights Commissions
5 Discrimination
a) Women's Rights and Sex Discrimination
b) Sexual Orientation
c) Age Discrimination
d) Disability
e) Race, Ethnic Origin, and Religion
6 Multiculturalism
a) Background
b) Quebec - The Bouchard-Taylor Commission
7 Employment Equity
8 Pay Equity
9 Aboriginal Rights
Part Four: Human Rights and International Relations
Terminology
1 International Human Rights Machinery
2 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 Regional Human Rights Machinery
4 The Human Rights Covenants and the Treaty Bodies
5 Canada and International Human Rights Machinery
6 Canada and Human Rights Violations
Part Five: Summing Up and Conclusions
1 Language Rights
2 Human Rights
Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Introduction
1 Personal File
2 School, University, Graduate Studies
3 A Public Service Career
a) The Department of External Affairs
b) The Secretary of State's Department and the Department of Communications
c) Official Languages Commissioner
d) Canadian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg
e) Human Rights Commissioner
f) Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee
Part Two: Language Rights
1 The Background to Language Reform
2 The Origins of the Royal Commission on Biligualism and Biculturalism
3 The Royal Commission Recommendations and Government Reactions
a) Preliminary Report
b) General Introduction
c) The Official Languages
d) Education
e) The Work World
f) Other Ethnic Groups
g) The Federal Capital
h) Voluntary Associations
4 Summary of Commission Proposals and Government Reactions
Part Three: Human Rights
1 Introduction
2 The Universality of Human Rights Norms
3 Perspectives on Human Rights
a) Narrow and Broad Approaches
b) Rights and Responsibilities
c) The Pendulum Effect and the Rights Industry
d) Rights and the Press
e) Conflicting Rights
4 The Canadian Experience
a) Policy Objectives
b) Implementation
c) The Charter, Legislation, and the Courts
d) Ombudsman Offices and Human Rights Commissions
5 Discrimination
a) Women's Rights and Sex Discrimination
b) Sexual Orientation
c) Age Discrimination
d) Disability
e) Race, Ethnic Origin, and Religion
6 Multiculturalism
a) Background
b) Quebec - The Bouchard-Taylor Commission
7 Employment Equity
8 Pay Equity
9 Aboriginal Rights
Part Four: Human Rights and International Relations
Terminology
1 International Human Rights Machinery
2 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 Regional Human Rights Machinery
4 The Human Rights Covenants and the Treaty Bodies
5 Canada and International Human Rights Machinery
6 Canada and Human Rights Violations
Part Five: Summing Up and Conclusions
1 Language Rights
2 Human Rights
Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Part One: Introduction
1 Personal File
2 School, University, Graduate Studies
3 A Public Service Career
a) The Department of External Affairs
b) The Secretary of State's Department and the Department of Communications
c) Official Languages Commissioner
d) Canadian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg
e) Human Rights Commissioner
f) Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee
Part Two: Language Rights
1 The Background to Language Reform
2 The Origins of the Royal Commission on Biligualism and Biculturalism
3 The Royal Commission Recommendations and Government Reactions
a) Preliminary Report
b) General Introduction
c) The Official Languages
d) Education
e) The Work World
f) Other Ethnic Groups
g) The Federal Capital
h) Voluntary Associations
4 Summary of Commission Proposals and Government Reactions
Part Three: Human Rights
1 Introduction
2 The Universality of Human Rights Norms
3 Perspectives on Human Rights
a) Narrow and Broad Approaches
b) Rights and Responsibilities
c) The Pendulum Effect and the Rights Industry
d) Rights and the Press
e) Conflicting Rights
4 The Canadian Experience
a) Policy Objectives
b) Implementation
c) The Charter, Legislation, and the Courts
d) Ombudsman Offices and Human Rights Commissions
5 Discrimination
a) Women's Rights and Sex Discrimination
b) Sexual Orientation
c) Age Discrimination
d) Disability
e) Race, Ethnic Origin, and Religion
6 Multiculturalism
a) Background
b) Quebec - The Bouchard-Taylor Commission
7 Employment Equity
8 Pay Equity
9 Aboriginal Rights
Part Four: Human Rights and International Relations
Terminology
1 International Human Rights Machinery
2 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 Regional Human Rights Machinery
4 The Human Rights Covenants and the Treaty Bodies
5 Canada and International Human Rights Machinery
6 Canada and Human Rights Violations
Part Five: Summing Up and Conclusions
1 Language Rights
2 Human Rights
Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index