Human rights in Canada : a history / Dominique Clement.
Material type: TextSeries: Laurier studies in political philosophy series | Canadian Electronic LibraryCanadian publishers collectionPublisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages)Content type: text | text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781771121644; 9781771121651Subject(s): Human rights -- Canada -- History | Human rights -- Social aspects -- Canada | Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Canada -- HistoireGenre/Form: Libros electronicos.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 323.0971 LOC classification: JC599.C3 | C542 2016Online resources: Click to ViewIssued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-217) and index.
Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Liberty and State Formation -- CHAPTER 2 Civil Liberties in Canada -- CHAPTER 3 Human Rights Beginnings -- CHAPTER 4 The Rights Revolution -- CHAPTER 5 Contesting Human Rights -- Conclusion.
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This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and foreign policy.
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