Cover
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1. Reflections: Trends in Historical Writing on Human Rights in Canada
Part I. Human Rights for Whom?
Chapter 2. A Child’s Right to Be Civilized? Human Rights, Children’s Rights, and Indigenous Rights
Chapter 3. Whose Rights Count? Antiracist Activists, Feminists, and Canada’s Human Rights Legislation from the Early 1950s to the Early 1970s
Chapter 4. On the Edge of Freedom: The Re-Enslavement of Elizabeth Watson in Nova Scotia
Part II. Incarceration, Criminalization, and Human Rights in Canada
Chapter 5. Internment Is a Family Affair: One Pro-Communist Ukrainian Jewish Extended Family’s Experiences with Political Incarceration in Second World War Canada
Chapter 6. “Injurious Effects on Mind and Body”: Solitary Confinement and the Limitations of Rights in Canadian Penitentiaries
Chapter 7. Performative Justice? Canada’s Response to Alleged War Criminals in the Country: The Case of Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vladimir Katriuk
Part III. Human Rights Activists and Activism in Canada
Chapter 8. The Battle of Church Street: Queers, Police, and the Streets of Toronto, 1981
Chapter 9. From Demanding Exclusion to Joining the Human Rights Community: Organized Labour and Human Rights in 1940s Canada
Chapter 10. Universal Rights in Local Contexts: Postwar Human Rights Debates in Quebec (1940s–60s)
Chapter 11. Native Non-Governmental Organizations: Grassroots Constructions of Aboriginal Human Rights in Canada
Part IV. Canada, Foreign Policy, and Transnational Human Rights Approaches
Chapter 12. Inside Out: The Rights Revolution and Canadian Foreign Policy since 1948
Chapter 13. “Eyes on the Prize”: Canada, Human Rights, and South African Apartheid in the Transition Years
Chapter 14. Pacific Flows: Asia, Canada, and Human Rights Norms Diffusion
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography
