Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 An Overview of Public Administration of Human Rights Enforcement in Canada -- 2 The Roles of Frontline Staff and Independent Lawyers in the Public Administration of Human Rights Enforcement -- 3 Transforming Human Rights Complaints into Cases -- 4 Publics, Counterpublics, and the Public Interest -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Excerpts from the Ontario Human Rights Code -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R
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Summary
"Defining Rights and Wrong investigates the day-to-day practices of low-level officials and intermediaries as they manage the gap between social relations and legal meaning in order to construct domestic human rights complaints. It documents how agency staff struggle to manage a huge body of claims within a system of restrictive rules but expansive definitions of discrimination. It also examines how independent human rights lawyers and advocacy organizations challenge human rights commissioners and seek to radically reform the existing commission/tribunal structure." "This book identifies the values that a human rights system should uphold if it is to be both fair and consistent with its own goals of promoting mutual respect and fostering the personal dignity and equal rights of citizens."--Jacket
