International Human Rights and Strategies to Address Homelessness and Poverty in Canada: Making the Connection

Huntsville, ON: Social Rights Advocacy Centre Working Paper, September 2011

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Bruce Porter

Social Rights Advocacy Centre

Martha Jackman

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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Date Written: September 1, 2011

Abstract

International human rights law has evolved from a system that considered social and economic rights as non-justiciable, to a more unified approach that recognizes the need for adjudication and remedy when socio-economic rights are violated. This paper is the first part of a two-part research project that considers what this new paradigm of social rights means for the design and implementation of programs and strategies to address poverty and homelessness, particularly in Canada. The paper reviews the international law sources of substantive and procedural rights that are relevant to poverty reduction and housing strategies. It describes how advocacy organizations have increasingly identified and challenged conditions of inequality and deprivation for Canadians in poverty within the international human rights framework, and it concludes that Canada needs better domestic procedures to hold all levels of government accountable for implementing the right to adequate housing and the right to an adequate standard of living in Canada.

Keywords: international human rights, Canada, economic rights, justiciable, socio-economic, rights, social rights, poverty, homelessness, housing

Suggested Citation

Porter, Bruce and Jackman, Martha, International Human Rights and Strategies to Address Homelessness and Poverty in Canada: Making the Connection (September 1, 2011). Huntsville, ON: Social Rights Advocacy Centre Working Paper, September 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2319186

Bruce Porter

Social Rights Advocacy Centre ( email )

Canada

Martha Jackman (Contact Author)

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section ( email )

57 Louis Pasteur Street
Ottawa, K1N 6N5
Canada

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