Canadian Heritage Human Rights Program

This website includes links to publications available from the Canadian Heritage Human Rights Program and to the texts of the major international human rights treaties. The publication list includes Canadas reports to the United Nations with respect to the international human rights treaties that Canada has signed and ratified. The site also lists the dates for the submission of Canada's upcoming reports to the UN treaty monitoring bodies and a table of concordances showing how provisions from the various treaties overlap and reinforce each other. [Descriptors: Key Texts, Canada]

This section of the Canadian government's Human Rights Program website contains information on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Canada's relationship to it. Along with background information on CEDAW and its Optional Protocol, the site also contains Canada's Fourth and Fifth Reports, submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 1995 and 2002 respectively, and the review of these reports undertaken by the CEDAW Committee in 1997 and 2003. [Descriptors: CEDAW Convention, Canada]