Jennifer Tunnicliffe is a human rights historian with a particular interest in how domestic and transnational activism shapes cultural attitudes and legislative approaches to rights and freedoms. She teaches in the department of History at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Stephanie Bangarth is a Professor in History at King’s University College, at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches courses on human rights advocacy and history in Canada and the United States and immigrant experience in North America.

Introduction by Jennifer Tunnicliffe and Stephanie Bangarth

Chapter . Reflections: Current Trends in Historical Writing on Human Rights in Canada by James W. St. G. Walker

Part I. Human Rights for Whom?

Chapter 2. A Child's Right to be Civilised? Human Rights, Children's Rights, and Indigenous Rights by Jasmine Holding Brown

Chapter 3. Whose Rights Count? Antiracist Activists, Feminists, and Canada's Human Rights Codes from the early 95 s to the early 97 s by Ruth Frager

Chapter 4. On the Edge of Freedom: The Re-enslavement of Elizabeth Watson in Nova Scotia by Franco Paz and Harvey Amani Whitfield Part

II. Incarceration, Criminalization, and Human Rights in Canada

Chapter 5. Internment is a Family Affair: One Pro-Communist Ukrainian-Jewish Extended Family 82 7 s Experiences with Political Incarceration in World War II Canada by Rhonda Hinther

Chapter . 822 Injurious Effects on Mind and Body 822 : Solitary Confinement and the Limitations of Rights in Canadian Penitentiaries by Janet Miron Chapter 7. Performative Justice? Canada 82 7 s Response to Alleged War Criminals in the Country, the Case of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Vladimir Katriuk by Katelyn Arac

Part III. Human Rights Activists and Activism in Canada

Chapter 8. The Battle of Church Street: Queers, Police, and the Streets of Toronto, 98 by Tom Hooper

Chapter 9. From Demanding Exclusion to Joining the Human Rights Community: Labour, Human Rights, and Immigration Policy in 94 s Canada by David Goutor

Chapter . Universal Rights in Local Contexts: Postwar Human Rights Debates in Quebec ( 945 82 ) by Paul- 2 tienne Rainville

Part IV. Canada, Foreign Policy, and Transnational Human Rights Approaches

Chapter 2. Inside Out: The Rights Revolution and Canadian Foreign Policy since 948 by Asa McKercher

Chapter 3. 822 Eyes on the Prize 822 : Canada, Human Rights, and South African Apartheid in the Transition Years by Daniel Manulak

Chapter 4. Pacific Flows: Asia, Canada, and Human Rights Norms Diffusion by David Webster