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HARP-395 |
| Title: |
The evolution of women’s human rights in the Supreme Court of Canada |
| Source: |
Canadian Issues , Spr’00 pg 12-13 |
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| Year: |
2000 |
| Pages: |
0 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, court, equality before the law, gender equality, human rights, woman, civil and political rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Supreme Court |
| Abstract: |
While it has become fashionable to decry judicial activism in recent years–particularly that of the Supreme Court of Canada since the Charter–the reality of the Supreme Court’s history to date has been rather more placid than the alarmists allow. In the early years, where women’s human rights have been concerned, judicial conservatism maintained a social structure that was only reluctantly beginning to accept the new roles that women were beginning to play. More recently, the Charter has provided the impetus to the Court to recognize women’s human rights as part of the equality equation rather than as an exception to it. |
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Keywords: Canada, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, civil and political rights, court, equality before the law, gender equality, human rights, Supreme Court, woman
