Promoting equity and dignity for Aboriginal children in Canada
| dc.contributor.author | Ball, Jessica | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-03T21:21:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-07-03T21:21:55Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2008 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In 1989, Canada played a prominent role in helping the international community draft the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Eighteen years after Canada ratified the UNCRC, a 2007 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report argued that relative to other nations on the list of the world’s 21 richest countries, Canada has been slow to honour its commitment to uphold these rights and ensure the well-being of children (Canada ranked 12th on the list, and the United Kingdom and the United States ranked 20th and 21st, respectively). The report singled out the plight of Aboriginal children as especially desperate, noting that in some communities they lack access to adequate housing and education, and even clean water (UNICEF 2007).2 Although the Government of Canada promised to improve conditions in its 1997 Gathering Strength: Canada’s Aboriginal Action Plan (Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development 1997), there is still no legal framework and no independent national children’s commissioner to monitor implementation of children’s rights federally and to coordinate federal, provincial and territorial policies that affect children. These needed strategies were recommended in a 2007 Senate report (Canada, Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights 2007). | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ball, Jessica. 2008. “Promoting Equity and Dignity for Aboriginal Children in Canada.” IRPP Choices 14 (7). | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1438 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Research on Public Policy | en |
| dc.subject | Knowledge Democracy / Participatory Research Hub | |
| dc.subject.department | School of Child and Youth Care | |
| dc.title | Promoting equity and dignity for Aboriginal children in Canada | en |
| dc.type | Report | en |