Journal Articles, Databases, and Websites on Human Rights
Canada's Human Rights History
- Canada's Human Rights History is a site created by the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta dedicated to documenting the history of human rights in Canada and includes sections on social movements, foreign policy, and legal history.
- This is a regularly updated and maintained site that includes event descriptions, biographies, social movements, and further reading material/publications regarding the history of human rights in Canada.
Federal/Provincial/Territorial Human Rights Legislation
- This is Canada's Human Rights History's page from the University of Alberta's Sociology Department, which contains links to past legislation concerning human rights, anti-discrimination, equal pay, fair employment practices and fair accommodation.
Canada's Museum of Human Rights
- This is the official website for Winnipeg, Manitoba's Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which is the first museum that is exclusively dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights.
- The website includes a collection of publications on matters involving human rights in Canada, education resources, and information regarding exhibitions and events at the museum.
Overview of Human Rights Codes by Province and Territory in Canada
- This report by the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion was published in January 2018 and provides an overview and comparison of Human Rights Codes by Provinces and Territories in Canada.
- For each province or territory, this report outlines the protected areas, prohibited grounds, and what makes the code unique from the others.
First Generation of Rights Associations
- This collection of information from the University of Alberta's Human Rights History website, discusses the First Generation of Rights Associations in Canada beginning in the early 1900's.
The Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
- The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a political party founded in Calgary, Alberta with the mission to represent progressive farmer, socialist and labour forces and to implement robust social welfare measures across the country.
- The party presented its founding program in 1933 (known as the Regina Manifesto). The CCF was been an outspoken proponent of the federal and provincial Bill of Rights and a major advocate for anti-discrimination legislation.
- For the CCF's Regina Manifesto (1933):
- For background on the CCF:
Canada's Guidelines on Supporting Human Rights Defenders
- This is a Canadian government publication on Canada's Guidelines on Supporting Human Rights Defenders and which also translated into six different languages.
Human Rights Watch
- This is the Human Rights Watch's page on Canada, which includes the main domestic human rights challenges and our international approach to human rights violations.
Canadian Human Rights Commission
- This is a 2015 Canadian Human Rights Commission report, which reveals the statistics regarding the work being done by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in a given year.
Canadian Human Rights Commission
- This report published by the Canadian Human Rights Commission discusses the evolution of human rights in Canada beginning from the early-mid 1900's to more present human rights challenges.
- The publication discusses how our understandings of human rights and civil liberties have changed due to policy and activism over the last several decades.
- A guiding theme in this report is that human rights always have, and continue to be contested.
- However, it discusses how far we have come since our early understandings of human rights.
Canadian Human Rights Museum
- In 2014, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened and at the time, was the first museum solely devoted to human rights awareness and education.
- This Museum opened in Winnipeg Manitoba, and four years prior (2010), Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the site when it was being constructed.
- https://www.gg.ca/en/media/news/2014/opening-canadian-museum-human-rights
Canada's Human Rights Commitments
- This is a catalogue on Canada's human rights commitments under international law.
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