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RIDR - Standing Committee

Human Rights

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41-2 41st Parliament, 2nd Session (October 16, 2013 - August 2, 2015)
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A committee's issues are the printed edited transcripts, available in both English and French, of the testimony received by the committee. While separate issues are often prepared for each meeting of a committee, at times a number of meetings may be contained in one issue. Also, a single issue will sometimes deal with more than one order of reference.

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Monitor issues relating to human rights and, inter alia, to review the machinery of government dealing with Canada's international and national human rights obligations

Examine and report on how the mandates and practices of the UNHCR and UNICEF have evolved to meet the needs of displaced children in modern conflict situations, with particular attention to the current crisis in Syria

Study the international mechanisms toward improving cooperation in the settlement of cross-border family disputes, including Canada's actions to encourage universal adherence to and compliance with the Hague Abductions Convention, and to strengthen cooperation with non-Hague State Parties with the purpose of upholding children's best interests

Study on issues of discrimination in the hiring and promotion practices of the Federal Public Service, to study the extent to which targets to achieve employment equity are being met, and to examine labour market outcomes for minority groups in the private sector

Bill S-201, An Act to prohibit and prevent genetic discrimination

Bill S-7, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Bill S-219, An Act respecting a national day of commemoration of the exodus of Vietnamese refugees and their acceptance in  Canada after the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War

Bill C-266, An Act to establish Pope John Paul II Day

Study upon the issue of cyberbullying in Canada with regard to Canada's international human rights obligations under Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Study on issues pertaining to the human rights of First Nations band members who reside off-reserve, with an emphasis on the current federal policy framework

 

 

 

 

 

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