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Designed as a companion volume to ""International Human Rights Law"" (""Irwin Law, 2004"", in the ""Essentials of Canadian Law"" series), this book is a comprehensive collection of international, regional, and national documents most relevant to the study and practise of international human rights law in Canada. It is a convenient, logically organized source of key references for readers of International Human Rights Law, and those with an interest in international human rights law in general. Part One brings together the texts of numerous international human rights instruments. It also includes instruments in four human rights-related areas: international labour, refugee, humanitarian, and criminal law. Texts are divided according to their binding and not binding character with respect to Canada. Part One also includes excerpts from decisions made by the UN Human Rights Committee on Canadian cases. Part Two contains regional human rights and human rights-related instruments from bodies such as the Organization of American States, the Council of Europe, and the African Union. As in Part One, a distinction is made between instruments binding and not binding on Canada. Part Three comprises a diverse collection of Canadian materials, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and related jurisprudence, key statutes, and a selection of excerpts from Canadian judgments relating to international law. The chapter concludes with a selection of Canadian reports to UN treaty bodies, as well as key policy documents and statements.

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Mark Freeman International Center for Transitional Justice Mark Freeman completed his BA at McGill University, his LL.B at the University of Ottawa, and his LL.M at Columbia University. He has published widely in the field of human rights, and is the author of the forthcoming Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness (Cambridge University Press, 2005). As a specialist in the field of transitional justice, he has conducted missions to a wide range of countries including Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and Serbia and Montenegro. He has taught at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and is Senior Research Fellow in Human Rights at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. Currently based in Toronto and Brussels, Mr. Freeman is Senior Project Manager for the International Center for Transitional Justice. Gibran van Ert Gibran van Ert holds a BA in history from McGill University, an MA in law from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an LLM from the University of Toronto. He is a former law clerk to Madam Justice Prowse of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia (2001-2) and to Justices Gonthier and Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada (2003). He is the author of Using International Law in Canadian Courts (Kluwer Law International, 2002). He practises civil litigation and administrative law with Hunter Voith Litigation Counsel in Vancouver.

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