Concordance of Canadian and International Human Rights Instruments

• Author: Mark Freeman, Gibran Van Ert
• Pages: 545-551

This Appendix provides a table of concordance comparing the rights of

the Charter and the Bill of Rights with selected binding and non-bind-

ing international human rights instruments.

Provisions listed in the leftmost column summarize the rights indi-

cated, e.g., “Presumption of innocence” for Charter s. 11(d) and simi-

lar provisions. Only provisions that closely match the right or freedom

given in the leftmost column have been included in the table. This does

not exclude the possibility of interpreting a given provision to include

some related right or freedom. For example, at the row “Right to coun-

sel” the table indicates that no such provision occurs expressly in the

UDHR, yet it is possible to interpret UDHR art. 11(1) as including this

right. Similarly, the Charter column for the row “Right to examine wit-

nesses” is marked “—” because no such right is explicitly found in the

Charter, yet such a right has been held to form part of ss. 7 and 11(d).

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Concordance of

Canadian and

international

human rights

instruments

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