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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 |
Public Education
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
Bruce Porter
Canadian
ESC Rights Case Index 2006
The
Right to an Effective Remedy in International Law (Power Point)
Claiming
Social and Economic Rights in Canada (Power Point)
Download
"Socio-Economic Rights in a Domestic Charter of Rights: A Canadian
Perspective"(2006) by Bruce Porter.
Download
"The Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights: An Updated
Appraisal" by Bruce Porter and Aoife Nolan in the January 2006
edition of Just News.
Enforcing social and economic rights:
View
a recent article by Bruce Porter of SRAC on the need for a complaints
procedure under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights.
Materials for judges and legal advocates:
View
Bruce Porter's keynote address to the Ontario Superior Court of
Justice Spring Seminar, May 2004.
View
the list of relevant cases and materials prepared for the Seminar
by Professor Martha Jackman.
View
"Toward a Comprehensive Framework for ESC Rights Practice"
by Bruce Porter.
Bruce Porter "Justiciability of ESC Rights and The Right
to Effective Remedies: Historic Challenges and New Opportunities"
(Paper commissioned by the UN Office of the High Commissioner on
Human Rights, publication in China forthcoming from the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences)
English
Chinese
Translation
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