From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe. Resisting Rights traces the Canadia

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through

When it comes to upholding human rights both at home and abroad, many Canadians would like to believe that we have always been “on the side of the angels.”

This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author