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Support Vote16 – Join the movement to support the private member’s bill to lower the voting age. With 338 Members of Parliament, legislation requires 170 votes to pass. Find out if your MP supports #Vote16.
End Canada’s failure to protect children
Opinion piece by Kathy Vandergrift, former President and Chair of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children Repeated failures to protect children from institutional abuse should receive more attention than a Canadian cardinal’s chances to become the next Pope. The failure to protect children is at the centre of the class action lawsuits against …
Public Policy Exchange Webinar: Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting Victims and Survivors and Protecting All Those at Risk
Tuesday, August 9th 2022 Webinar Key Speakers Include: Elliot Colburn MP, Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights Dr Craig French, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham Ibtisam Ahmed, Head of Policy and Research at LGBT Foundation Leni Morris, CEO of …
Child rights mainstreaming: survey for civil society
Check out this news from Child Rights Connect: The UN Core Group leading the development of the Secretary-General guidance note on child rights mainstreaming has published the online survey for civil society in English, French and Spanish, in order to gather inputs from you! OHCHR is in the lead of the consultations with civil society, including children. Deadline: …
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Confronting Stigma: Children’s right to be free from substance-use stigma and its harm
Check out the amazing work done by CCRC member, Starlings, on substance-use stigma. Starlings notes: “Stigma harms youth whose parents have a substance use disorder, that when we increase supports to families we will decrease risk for mental illness, substance use disorder, and suicide, and by exposing the systemic barriers that harms families, and address …
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Letter to Joint Parliamentary Committee on MAID
See below for a letter from the CCRC sent today to members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on MAID. June 23, 2022 Re: Medical Assistance in Dying – recommendation for children’s rights approach and considerations in fall committee hearings Dear Mr. Garneau and other members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on MAID, The Canadian Coalition …
2 Bills on Ending Corporal Punishment in Canada
Canada is in the unusual situation of having two private member’s bills tabled that call for repeal of section 43 of the Criminal Code – the law that allows physical punishment of children. Last month, Peter Julian (MP, New Westminster-Burnaby) tabled a bill in the House of Commons. Last week, Senator Stan Kutcher tabled a …