Index

• Author: Mark Freeman, Gibran Van Ert
• Pages: 611-621

aboriginals and aboriginal rights,

290–92, 296–99, 376, 543

self-government, 298–99

see also Assembly of First Nations;

indigenous peoples; Métis

National Council; residential

schools; self-determination

Acadian Canadians, 376

affirmative action, 88, 89, 289

Afghanistan, 406, 527

African Commission on Human and

Peoples’ Rights, 447–52

African Committee of Experts on

the Rights and Welfare of the

Child, 452

African Court of Human and Peoples’

Rights, 447–48

African Union (formerly the Organiza-

tion of African Unity), 52,

447–52

aggression, see crimes against peace,

aliens, state responsibility for, 9–10

American Declaration on the Rights and

Duties of Man 1948, bindingness

of, 102, 216

Amnesty International (AI), 509,

512–14

AI-Canada, 514

Angola, 410, 412

Annan, Kofi, 419–20

anti-discrimination laws, 202–3, 204,

289, 362–64

anti-semitism, 17–18

Anti-Slavery International (formerly

Anti-Slavery Society for Human

Rights), 11, 507

apartheid, 135, 137, 141–42, 385, 405,

416, 465

apology, see remedies: symbolic repara-

tion

Arar, Maher, 372

Arbour, Louise, 409, 469, 543

Arctic Council, 464

Argentina, 479, 522, 532–33, 536

arrest, detention and imprisonment,

263–68

arts, see culture, arts and science

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, 464

“Asian values,” 47–8

assembly, see freedom of peaceful

assembly

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References to international instruments, statutes and cases are not repro-

duced here. Consult the applicable tables at the end of the book.