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    Poverty : rights, social citizenship, and legal activism / edited by Margot Young [and others].

    • Title:Poverty : rights, social citizenship, and legal activism / edited by Margot Young [and others].
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Young, Margot.
    • Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2007.
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      • Location:Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
        c.1  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)
      • Call Number: KE4382 .P69 2007 (LC)
      • Number of Items:2
      • Status:Available
       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Canada. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
      Public welfare--Law and legislation--Canada.
      Poverty--Canada.
      Social rights--Canada.
      Human rights--Canada.
      Citizenship--Canada.
    • Description:x, 389 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780774812870 (bound) :
    • Contents:1. Reality checks : presuming innocence and proving guilt in charter welfare cases / Martha Jackman
      2. But it's for your own good / Dianne Pothier
      3. Social rights and "common sense" : Gosselin through a media lens / David Schneiderman
      4. Claiming adjudicative space : social rights, equality, and citizenship / Bruce Porter
      5. Aboriginal women unmasked : using equality litigation to advance women's rights / Sharon Donna McIvor
      6. Welfare reform and the re-making of the model citizen / Janet E. Mosher
      7. "Made in Quebec" Act to combat poverty and social exclusion : the complex relationship between poverty and human rights / Lucie Lamarche
      8. Accounting for rights and money in the Canadian social union / Barbara Cameron
      9. Collective economic rights and international trade agreements : in the vacuum of post-national capital control / Marjorie Griffin Cohen
      10. Minding the gap : human rights commitments and compliance / Shelagh Day
      11. Enforcing social and economic rights at the domestic level : a proposal / Grainne McKeever and Fionnula Ni Aolain
      12. Litigating socio-economic rights in South Africa : how far will the courts go? / Karrisha Pillay
      13. Taking competence seriously / David Wisemann
      14. Dignity, equality, and second generation rights / Denise G. Reaume
      15. charter as an impediment to welfare rollbacks : a meditation on "justice as fairness" as a "bedrock value" of the Canadian democratic project / Ken Norman
      16. Why rights now? : law and desperation / Margot Young
      17. challenge of litigating the rights of poor people : the right to legal aidas a test case / Melina Buckley
      18. subversion of human rights by governments in Canada / Gwen Brodsky.
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