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 document could also be mentioned in other Canadian documents.

How to use it?

Canada does not recognize the Convention or the authority or power of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. They only recognise the Convention on the Nationality of Women, Inter-American Convention on the granting of Political Rights to Women and the Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women. This makes it so complaints cannot be sent to court, but can only be looked over by the commission.