Canadian Bar Association - Member Articles

The 25th anniversary of Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: We’ve come a long way – haven’t we?

December 02, 2016

Twenty-five years later after ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Canada ranks 17th out of 29 affluent nations for children’s overall wellbeing and drops to 26th for inequality. So what can lawyers do to improve the welfare of Canadian children?

New toolkit to advance access to justice for children

April 15, 2015
By members of the CBA Children’s Law Committee and UNCRC Sub-Committee including The Honourable Donna Martinson, Q.C., Jessica Melanson, Dale Hensley, Q.C. and Caterina Tempesta.

The CBA’s United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Subcommittee of the Children's Law Committee has approval to develop an innovative and comprehensive child rights toolkit. The committee members successfully applied for funding from the CBA Law for the Future Fund.

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