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Winner of the 2009 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clement provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clement explores the history of four organizations ? the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Ligue des droits de l'homme, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and...

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Cl?ment traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation. Focusing on British Columbia ? the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex ? he documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. Drawing on previously undisclosed human rights commission records, Cl?ment explores the rise and fall of what was once the country's most progressive human rights legal regime and reveals how political divisions and social movements shaped the human rights state....

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Cl?ment traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation. Focusing on British Columbia ? the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex ? he documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. Drawing on previously undisclosed human rights commission records, Cl?ment explores the rise and fall of what was once the country's most progressive human rights legal regime and reveals how political divisions and social movements shaped the human rights state....

Winner of the 2009 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clement provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clement explores the history of four organizations ? the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Ligue des droits de l'homme, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and...