[homeles_ot-l] 30th FW: Thursday luncheon at Protect Human Rights

[Lynne Browne]

FYI...Lynne Browne
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH) 
Office 613-241-7913, ext 205, Cell 613-513-6647
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From: Rob Rainer [mailto:rob at cwp-csp.ca] 
Sent: April 28, 2009 4:07 PM
Cc: Anthony Salloum 
Subject: Thursday luncheon at Protect Human Rights

 

This is a group message to Ottawa-Gatineau area contacts:

 

Please see the invitation below to a luncheon Thursday concerning Canada's international human rights obligations.  The event time and place is as follows:

 

Thursday, April 30, 2009
 12:30 to 1:45 PM
In the boardroom of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
30 Metcalfe Street, Suite 500, Ottawa
A light lunch will be provided. Space is limited. 
RSVP operations at rideauinstitute.ca <mailto:operations at rideauinstitute.ca?subject=RSVP%20Luncheon%20briefing%20on%20the%20UPR%20of%20Canada> 

 

We hope to see you there!

Rob Rainer
Executive Director/directeur général
Canada Without Poverty / Canada sans pauvreté

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You're invited to a special luncheon briefing...

 

Canada's Failure to Protect Fundamental Human Rights

With Leilani Farha, Executive Director of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), and Bruce Porter, Executive Director of the Social Rights Advocacy Centre

 

 

Please join us for a briefing on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Canada by Leilani Farha, Executive Director of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), and Bruce Porter, Executive Director of the Social Rights Advocacy Centre.

 

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Meet Leilani Farha and Bruce Porter, April 30

Bruce and Leilani co-ordinated cross-country meetings in January with 125 NGOs and Indigenous organizations to identify the key human rights issues of concern to civil society in Canada. They then went to Geneva to brief state delegations on those issues prior to Canada's first ever UPR at the UN Human Rights Council on February 3. 

 

The UPR is a new procedure that covers all aspects of international human rights, including all treaties ratified by Canada. So the review ranged from economic, social and cultural rights, such as the right to housing or the right to an adequate standard of living, to civil and political rights such as the effects of counter-terrorism measures.  

 

A total of 68 recommendations were made to Canada on a wide range of issues. A dominant concern was Canada's failure to ensure effective mechanisms of accountability and legal protection of fundamental human rights, particularly economic and social rights. Canada must inform the United Nations in June which of the recommendations it accepts and will implement.  

 

Bruce and Leilani will discuss how NGOs and parliamentarians can take advantage of this critical opportunity for a renewed commitment to two human rights priorities: implementing Canada's international human rights obligations and to addressing widespread poverty, homelessness and hunger in Canada within a human rights framework.
 

Thursday, April 30, 2009
 12:30 to 1:45 PM
In the boardroom of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
30 Metcalfe Street, Suite 500, Ottawa
A light lunch will be provided. Space is limited. 
RSVP operations at rideauinstitute.ca <mailto:operations at rideauinstitute.ca?subject=RSVP%20Luncheon%20briefing%20on%20the%20UPR%20of%20Canada> 

 




Sincerely

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Steven Staples

President of the Rideau Institute 

 

 

 

The Rideau Institute is an independent research, advocacy, and consulting group based in Ottawa.