Bridging the Global Divide on Human Rights: A Canada-China Dialogue

Errol P. Mendes, Anik Lalonde-Roussy

• Introduction; Part I: Implementing Human Rights via Civil Society, Government and the Legal System; Chapter 1: Reflections on Civil Society and Human Rights; Chapter 2: The Detention System in China; Chapter 3: To Whom Must We Answer? Exploring the Relationship between Sovereignty, the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Chinese and Canadian Practice; Chapter 4: Private Property and Individual Freedoms; Part II: The Domestic Implementation of Human Rights in Customary International Law and in the Two International Covenants; Chapter 5: Implementing International Human Rights Treaties in China; Chapter 6: The Domestic Implementation of International Law: A Canadian Case Study; Part III: Integrating the Obligations Contained in the International Covenants on Human Rights with the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Chapter 7: The Child’s Right to Birth Registration: International and Chinese Perspectives; Chapter 8: ‘Particularizing the Universal’: The Challenge of Children’s Rights; Part IV: Gender Perspectives on Implementing Social and Economic Rights in an Era of Globalization; Chapter 9: The Question of State Responsibility at International Law for Acts of Violence Against Women; Chapter 10: The Rise of a Women’s Human Rights Epistemic Network in the 1990s: Global Norms, Gender Politics and Civil Society; Chapter 11: Globalization and Gender: Reflections on Human Rights and the ‘Neutrality’ of the Marketplace; Part V: Freedom of Expression and its Relation to Social, Economic and Cultural Development; Chapter 12: Freedom of Expression and Social Development: An Empirical Analysis of the Great Leap Forward; Chapter 13: From Gridlock to Growth: India’s Experience with Free Expression; Chapter 14: Corruption: The Cancer of the International Bill of Rights – Democracy and Freedom of Expression, the Main Treatments?; Part VI: Corruption in the Private Sector and its Impact on Ensuring the Right to Subsistence; Chapter 15: The Control of Corruption and Protection of Human Rights; Chapter 16: Corruption, Worker Rights and Good Governance

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