CCRC Submission to the Standing Committee on Health
Check out our submission to the Standing Committee on Health on issues related to children’s rights.
Webinar on Pressing Issues in Children’s Rights in 2022
Join us on Nov. 3 at noon EST for a panel on pressing issues in children’s rights. We will hear from experts in comprehensive sexuality education, a campaign to lower the voting age, and a leader in poverty elimination strategies. Click here to register! Bios: Insiya Mankani is the Public Affairs Officer at Action Canada …
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CCRC AGM: November 3, 2022 at 12pm EST
Join the CCRC for our Annual General Meeting on November 3th 2022 at 12pm EST. Note that this is open to the general public, not just CCRC members. The first hour will be a panel on three pressing issues for children’s rights in Canada. After the panel, we will have a 30 minute AGM, which will …
TRC Calls to Action: Children’s rights in the TRC Calls to Action
Tate Chong has created three fact sheets for the CCRC & Plenty Canada on TRC Calls to Action and Children’s rights. Please check them out and let us know what you think. Thank you Tate for your work, and thank you to Plenty Canada for your leadership.
UN CRC: Concluding Observation about intersex children
The CCRC notes that the government of Canada has enacted the Concluding Observation relating to intersex children in the new National 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan. The Concluding Observation from the 5th/6th Review noted: “In light of the reports that the Canadian legislation allows unnecessary medicalinterventions and surgical treatment on intersex children, the Committee recommendsthat the State …
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Philosophical questions & children’s rights
CCRC Board Member Candace Amarante has recently published a dialogue called, “Let’s not talk about it anymore” in Questions: Philosophy for Young People, a very unique journal that publishes work that explores philosophical questions by children and adults alike. Candace was inspired to write this dialogue after considering Article 14 of the United Nations Convention on the …
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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