Canada :UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
Tom Boland (wgcp@earthlink.net)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:14:05 -0400
FWD
Subject: UN Reports on Canada, 4 December
Author: Bob Olsen
Email: bobolsen@tao.ca
Date: 1998/11/29
Forums: flora.mai-not
CANADA MAY GET A FAILING GRADE FROM UN COMMITTEE ON DEC 4
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights will issue it's report on Canada's
compliance with the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights on Friday Decmeber 4, 1998.
Social activists expect the report to indicate that
Canada failed to comply with the Covenant and cite the
treatment of the poor, the homeless and sole support
mothers as Canada's principle failures.
[ A related article appears at:
http://www.canada.com/newscafe/getcp.asp?bk=world&sk=981127/w112733.html
Canadians wouldn't give answers on poverty, UN officials say
NATIONAL POST 29 November 1998 )
The Committee's final report may be available late on
Friday at:
http://193.135.136.30/frames/unis/unis1.htm
The UN Committee in it's 1993 report said:
"...considering Canada's enviable situation with regard
to such resources, the (UN) Committee expresses concern
about the persistence of poverty in Canada."
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/9c663e9ef8a0d080c12565a9004db9f7/280a3783f5
a26d09c12563e80058b47e?OpenDocument
http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/un.txt
Canada appeared before the United Nations Committee
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva
on November 26, 27, 1998.
The UN Committee asked Canada 81 questions regarding
Canada's compliance with the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Committee's 81 questions can be found at:
http://www.lift.to/listofissues.htm
http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/un.txt
http://www.web.net/ccpi/un/issues98.html
Canada's written reply to these questions is available
from the Human Rights page of Canadian Social Research
Links - http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/rights.htm
Canadian Gov't http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/uncan.htm
British Columbia http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unbc.htm
Alberta http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unab.htm
Saskatchewan http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unsask.htm
Manitoba http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unmb.htm
Ontario http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unont.htm
Quebec http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unqce.htm
New Brunswick http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unnb.htm
Nova Scotian http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unns.htm
New Foundland http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unnf.htm
NWT http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unnt.htm
Yukon http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/unyk.htm
The Federal Government can also send you these documents by
email, either in French or English and either in WordPerfect
format or in ASCII text. WordPerfect approx 650k, ASCII
about 400k
Send a message to Normand_Duern@pch.gc.ca
Send a message to Normand_Duern@pch.gc.ca
(Note: ask them to zip the 650K file to save
download time, provided you know how to unzip)
The original reports, from both the Canadian and Provincial
Governments, which in turn led the UN Committee to ask 81 the
questions, is contained in a long list of documents starting at:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/ddp-hrd/english/cesc/fd_1.htm
http://www.pch.gc.ca/ddp-hrd/english/cesc/foreward.htm
I urge you to read the UN Committee's questions and the
governments' answers and then discuss them with your Member
of Parliament or with your local media.
This info brought to you by a concerned citizen.
Bob Olsen, Toronto, bobolsen@tao.ca, http://www.tao.ca/~tdrc/
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the
grasp of executive power." Daniel Webster
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