Publications

The following publications are available from the Human Rights Program. Some are available on-line, in HTML and/or PDF versions. You can also obtain printed copies, or alternative formats, of most of these documents from the Human Rights Program. Please note that we can only mail to addresses within Canada.

1. General
2. International Human Rights Instruments
3. Canada's Reports to the United Nations

1. General

• The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  Also available: certificate (28 cm x 34 cm), poster (46 cm x 58 cm), braille, audio-cassette, diskette
  
  
• Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  (Includes a complete text of the Charter and a discussion of its meaning)
  Also available: printed version, braille, audio-cassette, diskette
  
  
• Youth Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  Developed by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights
  
  
• The Canadian Bill of Rights
  Also available: certificate (23 cm x 28 cm), poster (46 cm x 60 cm), audio-cassette
  
  
• Multilateral human rights treaties to which Canada is a Party
  (As of October 31, 2005)

2. International Human Rights Instruments

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  Also available: fold-out, braille, audio-cassette, diskette
  
  
• The International Bill of Human Rights
  Includes: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Optional Protocols, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  Available in printed format only
  
  
• The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
  Also available in printed format
  
  
• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  Also available in printed format
  
  
• The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
  or Punishment
  Also available in printed format
  
  
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child
  Also available in printed format

3. Canada's Reports to the United Nations

All reports are available in printed format. The most recent reports are also available on-line, in HTML and/or PDF versions.

Only the most recent reports to the United Nations Committees are included here.

Core Document to accompany all of Canada's Reports
(Basic reference document on Canada's political system for use by United Nations Human Rights Committees reviewing Canada's reports)

Reports on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

• Fifth Report
  (HTML Version | PDF Version, 782 KB)
  
  
• Interim Report in Follow-up to the Review of Canada's Fifth Report
  (HTML Version | PDF Version, 283 KB)

Reports on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Fourth Report
  (HTML Version | PDF Version, 1.61 MB)
  
  
• Fifth Report
  (HTML Version) | PDF Version, 571 KB)

Reports on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

• Fifteenth and Sixteenth reports
  
  
• Canada's Seventeeth and Eighteenth Reports
  (HTML version | PDF version, 702 KB)
  
  
• Interim Report in follow-up to the review of Canada’s Seventeenth and Eighteenth Reports Submitted to the UN on August 6, 2009
  (HTML version | PDF version, 125 KB)

Reports on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

• Sixth and Seventh Reports

Reports on the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment

• Interim Report in follow-up to the review of Canada's Fourth and Fifth Reports
  
  
• Fifth Report
  (HTML Version | PDF Version, 359 KB)

Convention on the Rights of the Child

• First Report on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
  
  

• Second Report

• Third Report
  (HTML Version | PDF Version, 1.21 MB)

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Fax: 819-994-5252 E-Mail: droits-rights@pch.gc.ca

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