Promoting and claiming social and economic rights through an inclusive human rights practice

 

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Bruce Porter Publications

Kanyinda v Quebec: Interventions and Translations of Documents

The Ongoing Nell Toussaint case on right to life of irregular migrants and healthcare

The National Housing Strategy Act and the right to housing in Canada

Recent and Current UN Human Rights Reviews of Canada and Implementation Initiatives

The 2019 Toronto Housing Charter and its Implementation Plan

The Tanudjaja Charter challenge to the failure to address homelessness

Canada Without Poverty v. Canada (AG) on freedom of chairities to engage in political activity

Charter Committee on Poverty Issues Interventions

Social Rights In Canada Community-University Research Project

Challenging the Implementation Gap: The Ongoing Struggle for International Human Rights in Canada

New & Interesting

CCPI/CHC/FCJRC and AI/ESCR-Net file facta in Toussaint v Canada

ESCR-Net/SRAC Submission on Toussaint Case and Access to Justice for Canada's Universal Periodic Review

CCPI Submission on Access to Justice for Social Rights for Canada's 2024 Universal Periodic Review

Michèle Biss, Bruce Porter, Sahar Raza, & David Desbaillets, Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing: A Literature Review

Three papers on implementing the right to housing under the National Housing Strategy Act

Presentations to Dept of Justice and OGD on National Housing Strategy Act with NRHN and WNHHN

Charities liberated to engage in public policy after groundbreaking decn of Justice Ed Morgan in Canada Without Poverty v Canada

CERA and National Right to Housing Network SUBMISSION under the National Housing Strategy Act.

Bruce Porter, La interdependencia de · los derechos humanos in Derechos sociales y el momento constituyente de Chile: Perspectivas globales y locales para el debate constitucional (Distrito Global, 2021)

Bruce Porter, Implementing the Right to Adequate Housing Under the National Housing Strategy Act: The International Human Rights Framework (2021) (en francais)

Martha Jackman & Bruce Porter "Social and Economic Rights" in P. Oliver, P. Macklem and N. Des Rosiers, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (New York, Oxford Univesity Press, 2017) at pp 843-866.

Martha Jackman and Bruce Porter (eds)  Advancing Social Rights in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014)

From the Archives

1992 Alternative Social Charter

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Implementation of International Human Rights in Canada

Challenging the Implementation Gap: The Ongoing Struggle

 

Elizabeth McIsaac, Mind the (Implementation) Gap: How Realize the Right to Housing (2019)

Alex Neve, Closing the Implementation Gap: Federalism and Respect for International Human Rights in Canada (2023)

Alexi White, In search of political will: Strengthening Canada’s mechanisms for the domestic implementation of international human rights commitments (2024)

 Access to Justice and Effective Remedies

CCPI Submission for Canada's 4th UPR

SRAC/ESCR-Net Submission for Canada's 4th UPR

Civil Society Advocacy

Letter to Ministers Responsible for Human Rights_FTP2020

Lettre aux Ministres des droits humains_FTP2020

Amnesty International Letter, Nov 2020 FPT HR Meeting

Moving Forward: A Vision for Strengthened International Human Rights Implementation in Canada: FPT meeting 2017

Aller de l’avant : Une vision pour un renforcement de la mise en application des droits humains internationaux au Canada: FPT 2017

FPT Ministerial HR Meeting follow up 2018

Letter to Minster Rodriguez regarding FPT meeting follow-up 2018

Empty Words & Double Standards NGO Coalition Statement - Canada UPR 2012

Paroles Creuses et Deux Poids Deux Mesures UPR 2012 Francais

Promise and Reality: NGO Statement on implementation 2008

Les Promesses et la Réalité 2008 francais