Transforming rights reflections from the front lines /
Maxwell Yalden.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
part 1. Introduction -- 1. Personal file -- 2. School, university, graduate studies -- 3. A public service career -- part 2. Language rights -- 1. The background to language reform -- 2. The origins of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism -- 3. The Royal Commission recommendations and government reactions -- 4. Summary of commission proposals and government reactions -- part 3. Human rights -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The universality of human rights norms -- 3. Perspectives on human rights -- 4. The Canadian experience -- 5. Discrimination -- 6. Multiculturalism -- 7. Employment equity -- 8. Pay equity -- 9. Aboriginal rights -- part 4. 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 5. Summing up and conclusions -- 1. Language rights -- 2. Human rights -- Appendix. Official languages and human rights commissioners.
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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