The Canadian Human Rights Commission has published this guide to explain the Canadian Human Rights Act and the human rights protections for Aboriginal Peoples under this act. The guide discusses which cases will fall under federal and...
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The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights has created the Youth Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This guide discusses fundamental freedoms as well as democratic rights, mobility rights, legal rights and...
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Website: www.oas.org
This Convention is a document about basic and essential human rights. It also includes information about other rights, such as privacy, rights of the family, right to a name, and rights of the child. The rights mentioned in this...
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This guide, produced by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (Crown copyright), is an overview of Part I and Part II of the Ontario Human Rights Code - the provincial law that gives everyone equal rights and opportuniteis without...
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Website: www.un.org
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a paper that explains the basic rights and freedoms of every person, under every government and country around the world. It is a paper that talks about the goals and values of the United...
Language(s): EnglishWhat: constitutionWhere: international- Language(s):EnglishFrenchArabicChineseRussianSpanish; Castilian
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The article from the Canadian Human Rights Commission "Now a Matter of Rights: Extending Full Human Rights Protection to First Nations" serves as overview of changes in legislation to defend the rights of First Nation Peoples and to...
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Website: rfkhumanrights.org
This website provides resources for educators and students interested in including human rights into education at all levels. The Human Rights Defenders curriculum helps young people learn about human rights topics using examples of...
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This article, by the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, tackles common questions about the rights of children covered under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also offers assistance to locate...
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Website: www.ohchr.org
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a document about the basic rights that children have around the world. It talks about the basic needs of children that need to be met to allow them to be safe and grow up healthy. Children...
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This is an agreement that talks about respecting the basic rights and freedoms of all humans without discriminating against anyone. This agreement is more specific to those rights for people with disabilities. It mentions what...
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