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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Tunnicliffe, Jennifer.     Subjects     International Bill of Human Rights.     International and municipal law -- Canada.     Human rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     Civil rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     International law -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     Canada -- Politics and government -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tunnicliffe, Jennifer.       by title:      Resisting rights : C...       by call number:      323.40971 T926r     Search the Web     Tunnicliffe, Jennifer.     International Bill of Human Rights.     International and municipal law -- Canada.     Human rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     Civil rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     International law -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     Canada -- Politics and government -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Resisting rights : Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947-76 / Jennifer Tunnicliffe. by Tunnicliffe, Jennifer. UBC Press, 2019. Call #: 323.40971 T926r Subjects International Bill of Human Rights.   International and municipal law -- Canada.   Human rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.   Civil rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.   International law -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.   Canada -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Series Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.) ISBN:  9780774838191 (pbk.) Description:  vii, 328 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-305) and index. Contents:  Resisting rights -- The roots of resistance: Canada and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Canada's opposition to a covenant on human rights -- A reversal in policy: the decision to support the covenants -- The road to ratification, 1966-76 -- The making of the myth. Summary:  "From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create an international bill of rights that would provide a common standard for human rights protection around the globe. Canadians celebrate their country's central role in this endeavour every Human Rights Day. Yet a detailed study of government policies toward these early UN documents tells a different story. Resisting Rights analyzes the Canadian government's initial opposition to the development of international human rights law, exploring how and why this position changed from the 1940s to the 1970s. Jennifer Tunnicliffe takes both international and domestic developments into account to explain how shifting cultural understandings of rights influenced policy, and to underline the key role of Canadian rights activists in this process. Tunnicliffe situates current policies within their historical context to reveal that Canadian reluctance to be bound by international human rights law is not a recent trend, and asks why governments have found it important to foster the myth that Canada has been at the forefront of international human rights policy since its inception."--From publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.40971 T926r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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