From PeacockPoverty:
PeacockPoverty is a collection of individuals with an experience of poverty who join together to share knowledge, strength, talent and wisdom with each other and our friends....
Homelessness, Human Rights, Media, Organizing, Poverty Research, Unemployment, Welfare, All of Canada, International
Poverty in Canada has been updated by author Dennis Raphael.
With the original foreword by Jack Layton and an updated foreword by Rob Rainer, the book's second edition contains new data and a new...
Homelessness, Human Rights, Poverty Research, All of Canada
The Poverty and Human Rights Centre is an online library with a searchable database of relevant international human rights treaties, Canadian law documents, court decisions, legal briefs, and...
Human Rights, Poverty Research, British Columbia, All of Canada, International
CERA is one of the nation's leaders in human rights protection in housing.
Homelessness, Human Rights, All of Canada
This website includes an online data base of reported and unreported Canadian human rights decisions and links to related human rights sites.
Human Rights, Media, British Columbia, All of Canada
Justice Beyond the Walls is dedicated to the protection and advancement of human rights in Canadian prisons. There are links to various court, government, NGO, international, human rights and media...
Human Rights, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, All of Canada
Poverty and Human Rights Online Library is a searchable database of materials related to social and economic rights. It includes texts of relevant international human rights treaties, Canadian and...
Human Rights, All of Canada
Status of Women Canada (SWC) is a federal government organization that promotes the full participation of women in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada.
Human Rights, Women, All of Canada
Part of the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism, Campaign to Stop Secret Trials and Deportations is interested in protecting and expanding civil rights, especially among those of racially and...
Alberta, Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, All of Canada
The Canadian Human Rights Commission administers the Canadian Human Rights Act and is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Employment Equity Act. Both laws ensure that the principles of equal...
Human Rights, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
LawCentral Canada is a portal or collection of links to law-related information and educational resources on justice and legal issues of interest to Canadians. Our purpose is to create an educated...
Aboriginal and First Nations, charter rights, civil law, criminal law, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, family law, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, legal help, Legal Info (PLEI), Prisoners' Rights, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
LawCentral Français est un portail ou une collection de liens vers des renseignements en matière juridique ainsi que des ressources éducatives concernant la justice et les enjeux juridiques d’intérêt...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Debt and Consumer Law, Family, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, legal help, Legal Info (PLEI), PLEI, portal, public legal education and information, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, All of Canada
This site, now over ten years old, has an amazing amount of links and is updated on a weekly basis. Everything you need to know about government policy, welfare rates, social policy, poverty...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Disability, Family, Foodbanks and Food, government, Government Policy, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, social policy, social research, statistics, Unemployment, All of Canada
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (www.aidslaw.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research, legal and policy...
Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, All of Canada
Sharon McIvor will file a complaint against Canada at the United Nations. She says, "Canada continues to discriminate against Aboriginal women and their descendants in the determination of...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, Women, All of Canada, International
For the past four years, the federal government has refused to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, claiming that Canada could not support resource rights, the right to...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, All of Canada, International
In this article based on his address to the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences on May 29th, 2010, the former leader of the NDP summarizes the journey of...
Government Policy, Human Rights, Poverty Research, Welfare, All of Canada
Citizen's for Public Justice looks at faith, justice and politics. In her blog Mariel looks at public policy and poverty.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty Research, All of Canada
Poverty and Human Rights Centre Law Sheet: Using International Social and Economic Rights in Anti-Poverty Advocacy
International human rights law has an important role to play in advocacy work...
Human Rights, Poverty Research, All of Canada, International
Today on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the National Council of Welfare (an advisory body to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development) released an...
Human Rights, Poverty Research, Welfare, All of Canada, International
