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Recent and Upcoming
New
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Will be adopted by the UN General Assembly
December 10, 2008
Just out - OHCHR
Summary of Canadian NGO Submissions for the Universal Periodic
Review of Canada
Address
to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva Switzerland, in
Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights (November 5, 2008)
Presentation to Expert Seminar, Office of the
High Commissioner on Human Rights, on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and Counter-Terrorism (November 6, 2008)
Presentation for General Discussion on Draft
General Comment on Right to Non-Discrimination, November 17, 2008)
Panelist, for US Human Rights Network
Planning Meeting on
Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Blueprint for for the Administration (New York City, November 14, 2008)
International Strategy Meeting on ESCR in Nairobi, Kenya December 1 - 4, 2008
Public Education Materials
Standing Up for Your Social and Economic
Rights English French
The Right to Adequate Housing English French
The Right to an Adequate Standard of
Living English French
Download a submission
to the Ontario Human Rights Commission on the Right to
Adequate Housing and the Human Rights Code (Word Doc)
The Justiciabilty of Social and Economic Rights: An
Updated Appraisal
by Aoife Nolan, Bruce Porter &
Malcolm Langford |
Litigation Support: Gunther, Krena, Toussaint
Challenge to
Refusal to Waive Fees for Poor People Applying for Humanitarian
and Compassionate Consideration
SRAC recently supported CCPI
and several rights claimants in an historic challenge to the
refusal of the Federal Government to provide for a waiver of fees
for Humanitarian and Compassionate Review under the Immigration
Act for those who live in poverty.
Justice Snider of the Federal
Court, dismissed the applications, finding two of the applications
moot, and dismissing the application of Nell Toussaint. The
applicants expect to appeal.
CCPI Memorandum
of Argument for Application to Intervene
Decision
on Intervention Application
CCPI
Memorandum of Argument
Applicants'
Expert Evidence
Gunther v. Canada (Citizenship
and Immigration) (2009 FC 875)
Krena v. Canada (Citizenship and
Immigration) (2009 FC
874)
Toussaint v. Canada (Citizenship
and Immigration) (2009 FC
873)
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