Canadian Re-engagement in Latin America: Missing the Mark Again

While Canada has supported the strengthening of human rights in the region, championing women's rights in particular, it has also refused to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has negotiated a trade deal with a habitual human rights violator, Colombia. [...] Ottawa's assumption that free market reforms harmonize with human rights commitments rests on a narrow definition of human rights, one that emphasizes civil and political rights but hostilely dismisses economic and social rights.