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POLI 2313

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Rights
  • scheduled for the exam period. Students are responsible to know the time
Fall 2024

Topics

  • Date Topic Assigned Readings
  • Course Overview and Syllabus Explanation
  • Introduction to HRCIC
  • Human Rights and Civil Liberties
  • An Overview of Human Rights in Canada HRCIC
  • Canadian Courts and the TCRF
  • Protection and Interpretation of Rights
  • CCRF, ss. 1, 29 and 33: TCRF
  • Guarantees and Limits of Rights
  • CCRF, s. 2(a): Religion and Human Rights TCRF
  • CCRF, s. 2(b): Freedom of Expression TCRF
  • CCRF, ss. 3 and 6: Voting and Mobility TCRF
  • CCRF, s. 7: Life, Liberty and Security of the Person TCRF
  • CCRF, ss. 7-9: TCRF
  • Rights in the Process of Criminal Law, Pt
  • CCRF, ss. 10-12: TCRF
  • CCRF, ss. 15, 27 and 28: TCRF
  • Equality, Multiculturalism and Gender
  • Ss. 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982: Indigenous HRCIC
  • Rights
  • Federalism and Human Rights in the United States
  • HRCIC
  • NGOs and Human Rights HRCIC
  • Human Rights, Technology, and Climate Change HRCIC
  • Museums, Monuments and E. Perot Bissell, “Monuments to the Confederacy

Readings

  • Required: 1. Sharpe, Robert J. and Kent Roach, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 7th ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2021).
  • Required: 2. DiGiacomo, Gordon ed., Human Rights: Current Issues and Controversies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press
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