Consumers, buyers and now Canadian courts are expecting more. The company is facing charges in an Ontario court related to the alleged gang rape of 11 Mayan women. The government has committed to end all drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves by 2021.

In 2019, Canada also co-presented with other states resolutions on Venezuela, Nicaragua, Yemen, and Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council. Photo: Roger Lemoyne. “History of Employment Equity in the Public Service and the Public Service Commission of Canada.” Public Service Commission of Canada, 2011, pp. The government continued a national strategy to prevent and address gender-based violence, budgeting C$101 million ($77.8 million) over five years to create a center of excellence within Status of Women Canada for research, data collection, and programming.

The fact that the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance has been 12 years in the making is a testament to the socioeconomic complexity of mining. [39], There have been numerous resettlement programs that spanned over a century and a half, whereupon the original agreements of Treaty territory had been revised without consultation with the indigenous groups who signed the treaties.

Aggravated assault or endangerment of life carry prison sentences of up to 14 years.

The constitution and law provide for freedom of internal movement, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation, and the government generally respected these rights. Jeremy Kinsman has served as a Canadian ambassador to Russia (1992-96), Italy (1996-2000), and the European Union in Brussels (2002-2006), and as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2000-2002) . The Chinese head tax was a fixed fee charged to each Chinese person entering Canada. Brandt, Christopher., et al. Status and services are withheld from unregistered or nonstatus indigenous persons who do not meet eligibility criteria for official recognition or who may have lost status through marriage to a nonindigenous person or other disenfranchisement.

On November 5, 1999, the UN Human Rights Committee condemned Canada and Ontario for having violated the equality provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It’s also what made Rohingyas flee Myanmar.

Responsibility for identifying unsafe situations resides with authorities, employers, and supervisors, not the worker. The taxi company subsequently fired the driver, and Montreal police opened a hate-crime investigation.

However, no Canadian law provides a mechanism to allow authorities to exercise meaningful scrutiny and oversight of the human rights impact of Canadian extractive companies operating overseas.

More important, minorities must be able to pursue their rights through normal political participation. According to the CBSA,  7,212 immigration detainees were detained in holding centers in 2018-19, up from 6,609 the previous year. In April, after a visit to Canada, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women called for improvements in Canada’s legal framework, and urgent action on systemic violence against indigenous women. Disability rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) reported that persons with disabilities experienced higher rates of unemployment and underemployment, lower rates of job retention, and higher rates of poverty and economic marginalization than the broader population.