Neve and Vaugrante: Canada must rise to the human-rights challenges it has been neglecting

On Dec. 10, 1948, governments gathered at the fledgling United Nations and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Almost seven decades later, the declaration has become the centrepiece of an international human rights system comprised of countless treaties, declarations, councils and experts, all meant to deliver that promise of universal human rights protection around the globe. Yet widespread human rights violations devastate the lives of women, men and young people on every contin