The following is a list of recent publications related to the study of human rights in Canada (with a few international publications that discuss the evolving historiography on this topic).  If you have suggestions about other recent publications on this topic, please submit them to the webmaster.

Articles:

• Afshari, Reza, "On Historiography of Human Rights Reflections on Paul Gordon Lauren’s The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen," Human Rights Quarterly  29, 1 (2007).
• Behiels, Michael. "Canada and the Implementation of International Instruments of Human Rights: A Federalist Conundrum, 1919-1982." In Framing Canadian Federalism: Historical Essays in Honour of John T Saywell, edited by Dimitry Anastakis and P.E. Bryden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
• Burke, Sara. "Women of Newfangle: Co-Education, Racial Discourse and Women's Rights in Victorian Ontario." Historical Studies in Education 19, no. 1 (2007): 111-33.
• Cardinal, Linda and Stéphane Lang, "Roy McMurtry, les droits des Franco-Ontariens et la national canadienne" MENS  7, 2 (2007): 279-311.
• Cassin, A. Marguerite. "Human Rights, Culture and Everyday Lives." British Journal of Canadian Studies 19, no. 2 (2006): 279-304.
• Clément, Dominique.  "Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia, 1953-1984." In The West and Beyond, edited by Sara Carter, Alvin Finkel and Peter Fortna. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2010.
• ———. "‘I Believe in Human Rights, Not Women’s Rights’: Women and the Human Rights State, 1969-1984." Radical History Review 101 (2008): 107-29.
  
• ———. "The October Crisis of 1970: Human Rights Abuses under the War Measures Act." Journal of Canadian Studies 42, no. 2 (2008): 160-86.
  
• ———. "“Rights without the Sword Are but Mere Words”: The Limits of Canada’s Rights Revolution." In A History of Human Rights in Canada, edited by Janet Miron. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2009.
  
• Dawson, Michael. "Leisure, Consumption, and the Public Sphere: Postwar Debates over Shopping Regulations in Vancouver and Victoria During the Cold War." In Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75, edited by Magda Fahrni, 193-216. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.
• Patrias, Carmela, "Race, Employment Discrimination, and State Complicity in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945," Labour/Le Travail  Spring (2007).
• Patrias, Carmela, "Socialists, Jews, and the 1947 Saskatchewan Bill of Rights" Canadian Historical Review 87, 2 (June 2006): 265-292.
  

Books

• Ajzenstat, Janet. The Canadian Founding John Locke and Parliament, 2007).
  
• Bangarth, Stephanie, Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942–49 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007).
• Blake, Raymond. From Rights to Needs: A History of Family Allowances in Canada, 1929-92. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008.
• Clément, Dominique, Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008).
• James, Matt, Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006).
• Langer, Rosanna L. Defining Rights and Wrongs: Bureaucracy, Human Rights, and Public Accountability. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.
  
• Miron, Janet, ed. A History of Human Rights in Canada. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2009).
• Stein, Janice Gross, ed. Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada, (Waterloo: Wilfried Laurier University Press, 2007).
• Yalden, Maxwell. Transforming Rights: Reflections from the Front Lines. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2009.
• Young, Margot, Susan B. Boyd, Gwen Brodsky, and Shelagh Day. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007).

• Adams, Eric. "The Idea of Constitutional Rights and the Transformation of Canadian Constitutional Law, 1930-1960." University of Toronto, 2009.

Social Movements

• Clément, Dominique. "Generations and the Transformation of Social Movements in Post-War Canada." Histoire Sociale/Social History 42, no. 84 (2009).
  
• Dupuis-Déri, Francis, ed. Québec En Mouvements: Idées Et Pratiques Militantes Contemporaires. Montreal: Lux Éditeur, 2008.
• Early, Frances. "Canadian Women and the International Arena in the Sixties: The Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes and the Opposition to the Vietnam War." In The Sixties: Passion, Politics and Style, edited by Dimitry Anastakis, 25-41. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008.
  
• Ellison, Jenny. ""Stop Postponing Your Life until You Lose Weight and Start Living Now": Vancouver's Large as Life Action Group, 1979-1985." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18, no. 1 (2007): 241-65.
• Goldfield Michael, and Bryan Palmer, "Canada's Workers Movement: Uneven Developments," Labour/Le Travail  Spring (2007).
• Hammond-Callaghan, Marie, and Matthew Hayday. Mobilizations, Protests and Engagements: Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2008.
• Hébert, Karine. Impatient D'être Soi-Même: Les Étudiants Montréalais, 1895-1960. Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2008.
• Little, Margaret Hillyard, "Militant Mothers Fight Poverty: The Just Society Movement, 1968-1971," Labour/Le Travail   (2007).
• Smith, Miriam. Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2007.
  
• Staggenborg, Suzanne, Social Movements (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2007).