Canada and Canadian Social Movements

Canada and Canadian Social Movements

1. Human Rights

   • All equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination
   • Pride Week in Toronto, 1973

2. Human Rights

   • Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, no matter the nationality, sex, color, religion, etc.
     • MLK's walk and speech about racism in 68"
     • Some basic Human Rights are freedom of speech, religion, right to protest, right to life, liberty and security of person
     • Canada signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948

3. Aboriginal Rights

   • Banned from creating political organizations until the late 20th century
   • Indian Act, 1896
     • Trudeau's attempt to add the natives into "civil society"
       • Still not allowed to govern themselves and the land is owned by the queen
   • Constitution Act, 1982
     • Section 25 states that the Charter does not have the right to interfere with the rights of the Aboriginals
       • Section 35 recognizes existing natives and treaties signed by them
       • • Aboriginal Protest for rights

4. Gay & Lesbian Rights

   • Movement didn't begin until Britain legalized sex between men over the age of 21
   • 1967, Trudeau decriminilzes homosexual acts
   • 1996, Canada makes unfair treatment or discrimination of gays and lesbians illegal

5. Women Rights

   • 1967, Royal Commission of Women
     • Introduced by Lester B. Pearson
     • Promoted equal pay and equal education opurtunites
   • 1967, National Action Committee on the Status of Women
     • Started as a interest group to pressure governments for equality
       • Supports sexual assault shelters
         • As well as shelters for battered women

6. Child Rights

   • Children around the world are exploited, abused, and discriminated against.
   • Canada played a key role in the negotiations that led to the adoption in 1989 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
     • Have many basic human rights as well, along with right to life, right to freedom, right to not work etc.
       • Canada’s governments, schools and other institutions have progressively changed a number of laws, policies and practices to uphold children’s rights

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