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Poverty : rights, social citizenship, and legal activism
- Title
- Poverty : rights, social citizenship, and legal activism / edited by Margot Young [and others].
- Publication
- Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Young, Margot.
- Description
- x, 389 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Law and society series
- Uniform Title
- Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
- Subject
- Canada
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada)
- Public welfare > Law and legislation > Canada
- Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada
- Basic needs > Law and legislation > Canada
- Social rights > Canada
- Human rights > Canada
- Citizenship > Canada
- Public welfare > Canada
- Basic needs > Law and legislation
- Citizenship
- Human rights
- Public welfare
- Public welfare > Law and legislation
- Social rights
- Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc
- Armut
- Soziale Rechte
- Canada
- Kanada
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Reality checks : presuming innocence and proving guilt in Charter welfare cases / Martha Jackman -- But it's for your own good / Dianne Pothier -- Social rights and "common sense" : Gosselin through a media lens / David Schneiderman -- Claiming adjudicative space : social rights, equality, and citizenship / Bruce Porter -- Aboriginal women unmasked : using equality litigation to advance women's rights / Sharon Donna McIvor -- Welfare reform and the re-making of the model citizen / Janet E. Mosher -- The "Made in Québec" act to combat poverty and social exclusion : the complex relationship between poverty and human rights / Lucie Lamarche -- Accounting for rights and money in the Canadian Social Union / Barbara Cameron -- Collective economic rights and international trade agreements : in the vacuum of post-national capital control / Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Minding the gap : human rights commitments and compliance / Shelagh Day -- Enforcing social and economic rights at the domestic level : a proposal / Gráinne McKeever and Fionnuala Ni Aoláin -- Litigating socio-economic rights in South Africa : how far will the courts go? / Karrisha Pillay -- Taking competence seriously / David Wiseman -- Dignity, equality, and second generation rights / Denise G. Réaume -- The charter as an impediment to welfare rollbacks : a meditation on "justice as fairness" as a "bedrock value" of the Canadian democratic project / Ken Norman -- Why rights now? : law and desperation / Margot Young -- The challenge of litigating the rights of poor people : the right to legal aid as a test case / Melina Buckley -- The subversion of human rights by governments in Canada / Gwen Brodsky.
- ISBN
- 9780774812870
- 0774812877
- 9780774812887
- 0774812885
- LCCN
- 2007280173
- OCLC
- ocn122706961
- 122706961
- SCSB-8877742
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library