Published in:Exchange Working Paper Series 3(3), Population Health Improvement Research Network
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (58 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2469947
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 1, 2012 erstellt
Description:
This paper, the first in a two-part research series, examines the evolution of rights-based approaches to poverty and homelessness at the international level; considers the sources, under international law, of substantive and procedural rights that are relevant to poverty reduction and housing strategies in Canada; and reviews the increasing calls for rights-based approaches in Canada and in Ontario. The research series reviews the evolution of the understanding of the relationship between human rights and anti-poverty and housing strategies; it considers what the new paradigm of social rights and the re-unified system of human rights in international human rights law means for the design and implementation of these strategies; it assesses the extent to which the new paradigm of social rights can be given domestic effect through constitutional rights in Canada and, finally, it considers what poverty reduction and housing strategies in Ontario would look like if they were to incorporate this new understanding of rights-based approaches to poverty and homelessness. The second paper, entitled “Strategies to Address Homelessness and Poverty in Ontario: the Constitutional Framework” (available here: http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2467682) considers the extent to which Canada’s constitutional human rights norms may be interpreted and applied to provide a domestic constitutional framework for the rights-based approaches that are required under international human rights law