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Issues & Campaigns

Below please find a list of key issues and campaigns in Canada's human rights history. Links will provide a brief description of the issue or campaign within a human rights context.

 

Abortion

Acadian expulsion

Africville

Anti-discrimination legislation

Anti-Semitism

Anti-slavery

Assisted suicide

Bill of Rights

Bylaw 3926 (Montreal)

Capital punishment

Christie Pitts riot (Toronto)

Censorship (obsenity laws)

Censorship (WWI/WWII)

Civilian review for police abuse

Cold War and Communism

Conscientious objectors

Conscription

Corporal punishment schools

Denominational education (e.g. Newfoundland)

Discrimination (accommodation, services and employment)

Doukhobours

Dresden, Ontario, de-segregation

Due process

Emergency Powers (Defence of Canada Regulations; War Measures Act; Emergencies Act)

Equal pay

Eugenics

Forcibly institutionalized mentally ill

Freedom of information

Gay marriage & adoption

Georgia Straight & free speech

Hate propaganda

Hate speech (free speech?)

Holocaust

Hutterites (Alberta land ownership)

Insurance policies (discrimination against women, minorities)

Internment

Immigration (e.g. head tax)

Jehovah's Witnesses

Land claims

Landlord-tenant laws

Language rights

Lords Prayer in public schools

Mandatory retirement

Married women's property laws

Maurice Duplessis

Métis

Multiculturalism

Narcotics

Official languages

Police abuses

Privacy (surveillance; information; wiretapping)

RCMP illegal activities of the 1970s

Residential schools

Restrictive covenant

s. 15 Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Section 98 (criminal code)

Separate schools

Sexual orientation in human rights law

Slavery

Sterilization laws (BC, AB)

Suffrage (women & minorities)

Union organizing

War on terror

Welfare regulations

Youth justice/law

 

 

 

 


 
           
     
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