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HARP-483 |
Title: |
Antidiscrimination laws in Canada: human rights commissions and the search for equality |
Source: |
Human Rights Quarterly, 19, Ag ’97, 547-71 |
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Year: |
1997 |
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0 |
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Keywords: |
anti-discrimination, Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, equality before the law, equity, human rights, non-discrimination, civil and political rights, minority rights |
Abstract: |
In recent years human rights has become a phrase in daily use. It is employed to condemn the killings in Tiananmen Square, the exploitation of child labor in India, and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. The present article will address the distinctly less dramatic but nonetheless real challenges implicit in achieving equal opportunity for all groups in Canada, a country which is generally viewed as having a well-developed system of human rights protection. It will outline the human rights framework that exists in the country today, with particular reference to the work of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. It will also touch on the currently controversial concept of affirmative action (or employment equity, as it is known in Canada) which is viewed in some quarters as a necessary extension of human rights principles, in others as a misguided effort at social engineering that undermines the very idea of equality. |
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Keywords: anti-discrimination, Canada, civil and political rights, cultural rights, economic, employment, equality before the law, equity, human rights, minority rights, non-discrimination, social