The 3rd Annual Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC) In | Equity Conference (CCYC) is taking place online Oct 20-21, 2023)! They have an excellent line up of presenters – see some keynotes below and also check out more on the Speakers and Agenda sections of our website. Also, a reminder that early-bird pricing ends Fri Sep 15 – so register now and save!
Check out this new report from the Mary Ward Centre: No One Left Behind? An Intersectional Analysis of the 2030 Agenda in Canada. Executive summary: Using intersectional and equity lenses to examine the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we learned from the experiences of those most impacted by pandemic disruptions. In particular, we focused on the …
On Monday August 28, the CCRC was thrilled to join the UN Special Rapporteur, Mr. Tomoya Obokata, responsible for slavery on his visit to Canada. Mr. Tomoya Obokata was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery in March 2020. Mr. Obokata is a Japanese scholar of international law and human rights, specialising in transnational organised crime, …
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Check out this guidance note on Child Rights Mainstreaming. It’s a call to action on human rights by the United Nations.
An important development this week from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: they have named environmental degradation, including climate change as “structural violence against children”. Read more here.
From Our Children’s Trust: In a historic first, Judge Kathy Seeley in the First Judicial District Court of Montana ruled wholly in favor of the 16 youth plaintiffs in Held v. State of Montana, declaring that the state of Montana violated the youth’s constitutional rights, including their rights to equal protection, dignity, liberty, health and safety, …
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This year, the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – a miraculous text adopted by the United Nations. The Human Rights 75 initiative, led by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recalls the consensus imagined by the UDHR, looks to the future, and seeks to …