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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Review of Canada

Documents for Canada's review under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Core documents and stakeholder submissions for Canada's next review by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Session documents are mirrored here as PDFs from the OHCHR treaty-body database.

Previous Concluding Observations

PDF Concluding Observations on the sixth periodic report of Canada (2016) E/C.12/CAN/CO/6 PDF Concluding Observations on the fourth and fifth periodic reports of Canada (2006) E/C.12/CAN/CO/4; E/C.12/CAN/CO/5 PDF Concluding Observations on the third periodic report of Canada (1998) E/C.12/1/Add.31 PDF Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Canada (1993) E/C.12/1993/5

State Party's Report and Core Documents

PDF State Party's Report (2024) E/C.12/CAN/7 PDF Annex to State Party Report INT/CESCR/ADR/CAN/59578 PDF Common Core Document HRI/CORE/CAN/2019 PDF List of Issues Prior to Reporting E/C.12/CAN/QPR/7

Stakeholder Submissions for the List of Issues Prior to Reporting

12 submissionsPDFs mirrored from OHCHR source files
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Mouvement L'ecole ensemble (MLEE)
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Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights (joint submission)
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Amnesty International
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First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (FNCFCS)
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Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
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National Right to Housing Network (NRHN)
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Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
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Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA)
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People for Education Canada and Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (joint submission)
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Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change et al (joint submission)
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Social Rights Advocacy Centre (SRAC) and Charter Committee on Poverty Issues (CCPI) (joint submission)
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Canada Without Poverty et al (joint submission)

NHRI Submissions

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Canadian Human Rights Commission

Info from Other Stakeholders

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BC Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC)