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Waterloo v Persons to be Named

UN Human Rights Committee Review of Canada March 2026

Heegsma v Hamilton

Kanyinda v Quebec: Interventions and Translations of Documents

The Ongoing Nell Toussaint case on right to life of irregular migrants and healthcare

The National Housing Strategy Act and the right to housing in Canada

Implementation of International Human Rights in Canada: The Ongoing Struggle

The 2019 Toronto Housing Charter and its Implementation Plan

The Tanudjaja Charter challenge to the failure to address homelessness

Canada Without Poverty v. Canada (AG) on freedom of chairities to engage in political activity

Charter Committee on Poverty Issues Interventions

Social Rights In Canada Community-University Research Project

Challenging the Implementation Gap: The Ongoing Struggle for International Human Rights in Canada

New & Interesting

CCPI/CHC/FCJRC and AI/ESCR-Net file facta in Toussaint v Canada

ESCR-Net/SRAC Submission on Toussaint Case and Access to Justice for Canada's Universal Periodic Review

CCPI Submission on Access to Justice for Social Rights for Canada's 2024 Universal Periodic Review

Michèle Biss, Bruce Porter, Sahar Raza, & David Desbaillets, Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing: A Literature Review

Three papers on implementing the right to housing under the National Housing Strategy Act

Presentations to Dept of Justice and OGD on National Housing Strategy Act with NRHN and WNHHN

Charities liberated to engage in public policy after groundbreaking decn of Justice Ed Morgan in Canada Without Poverty v Canada

CERA and National Right to Housing Network SUBMISSION under the National Housing Strategy Act.

Bruce Porter, La interdependencia de · los derechos humanos in Derechos sociales y el momento constituyente de Chile: Perspectivas globales y locales para el debate constitucional (Distrito Global, 2021)

Bruce Porter, Implementing the Right to Adequate Housing Under the National Housing Strategy Act: The International Human Rights Framework (2021) (en francais)

Martha Jackman & Bruce Porter "Social and Economic Rights" in P. Oliver, P. Macklem and N. Des Rosiers, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (New York, Oxford Univesity Press, 2017) at pp 843-866.

Martha Jackman and Bruce Porter (eds)  Advancing Social Rights in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014)

From the Archives

1992 Alternative Social Charter

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