PACS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Omar Khadr, Fourth Geneva Convention

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS202
• Professor: Kelly Brown

Document Summary

I have already enumerated some of the sources for rights in our society. What i want to do now is dig a bit more deeply into some of those sources. The canadian charter of rights and freedoms, which is the opening section of the canadian. Interestingly the charter starts with the following in. Section 1: the canadian charter of rights and freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it, subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justi ed in a free and democratic society. This section clearly delineates the idea that rights are not absolute. There are certain ways that rights can be limited. For example section 2b sets out the fundamental freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication. But section 318 of the criminal code de nes hate propaganda as an offense.