On September 22, 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted the Pact for the Future, an agreement between States for how they will work together to respond to some of the future’s biggest challenges. The Child Rights International Network (CRIN) provides an overview of what this pact means for children and children’s rights, and what is missing; …
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The Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children (CCRC) submitted its report (August 22, 2024) to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for General Comment No. 27 addressing the serious obstacles and struggles that children in Canada face while trying to access justice and effective remedies when their rights have been violated. You can read …
The Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development (FMIHD) Policy Bench, administered in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto has just published a policy brief and fact sheet that explore “the issue of legislation around corporal punishment of children in Canada from various perspectives – including social and cultural, legal, and …
This week, the House of Commons is getting a report back from the Standing Committee on Human Rights and Justice on Bill C-273, which is a private member bill by NDP MP Peter Julien, which would ban corporal punishment. We are encouraging our supporters to write to their MPs and ask them to support the …
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As a partner organization on the SSHRC-funded PEG with 9 child researchers from Ontario and Quebec, Dr. Hala Mreiwed (PI), Dr. Mindy Carter (Co-I), Dr. Laura Wright (Collaborator), and Dr. Kate Butler, the CCRC is pleased to share the first publication from the Peer-to-Peer Relationships: Participatory Action Research project. The article is open access and …
“Each year, one billion children are victims of violence. Violence erodes every investment that families, communities and governments make in children, from their education to their mental and physical health”. The first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children will take place in Bogota, Colombia on November 7-8, 2024. This meeting will be an …
This webinar explores the controversial practice of seclusion rooms in schools and their impact on students, particularly those with disabilities. Many parents have criticized the use of seclusion or isolation rooms as being abusive and discriminatory towards children with disabilities in particular, and children who are Black or immigrant. Many jurisdictions have no clear policies …
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