Resources

Publications

Research, Articles, and Reports on Social and Economic Rights

Selected Publications

Poverty and the Courts Bruce Porter (Keynote address, 2004)
The Right to Adequate Housing in Canada Bruce Porter, in National Perspectives on Housing Rights (2003)
Women and Housing in Canada: Barriers to Equality Maureen Callaghan, Leilani Farha & Bruce Porter (2002)
Les Femmes et le Logement au Canada: Entraves à l’égalité Maureen Callaghan, Leilani Farha & Bruce Porter (2002)
Judging Poverty: Using International Human Rights Law to Refine the Scope of Charter Rights Bruce Porter (2000)
Women’s Substantive Equality and the Protection of Social and Economic Rights Under the Canadian Human Rights Act Martha Jackman and Bruce Porter (1999)
Screening Rights: The Denial of the Right to Adjudication in the Canadian Human Rights Act and How to Remedy It Bruce Porter and Joanna Birenbaum (1999)
Using Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Bodies in Domestic Social And Economic Rights Advocacy: Notes From Canada Bruce Porter (1999)
Beyond Andrews: Substantive Equality and Positive Obligations after Eldridge and Vriend Bruce Porter (1998)
Social Rights and the Question of a Social Charter Bruce Porter (1998)
The Right to Housing: From Rhetoric to Practice Bruce Porter (1999)
The Importance of Including Social and Economic Rights in the South African Constitution: A Canadian Perspective Bruce Porter (1999)
The Uninvited Guests: Reflections on the Brief History of Poor People Seeking their Rightful Place in Equality Jurisprudence Bruce Porter (1994)
Social and Economic Union: The Social Charter that isn't Bruce Porter (1992)
Poverty Stops Equality / Equality Stops Poverty: The Case for Social and Economic Rights Bruce Porter and Havi Echenberg (1990)

Videos & Interviews

Vienna+20 (Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) August 15, 2013
Interview with Bruce Porter on the OP-ICESCR OHCHR Human Rights Treaties Division Newsletter (2013)
Making Rights Real: The Implementation of International Human Rights in Canada Panel Discussion, University of Ottawa (2012)
Using the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to promote rights to housing Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation