What Are You Doing for National Child Day?

Every November 20, advocates for children and children's rights mark World Children's Day and, in Canada, National Child Day. It marks the anniversary of the date that the United Nations General Assembly adopted both the Declaration (in 1959) and the Convention (in 1989) on children's rights.

Organizations across Canada organize events on and around National Child Day. For example,

• The International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership is offering up a full week of panels and discussions from November 18 to 22.
• The team at UNICEF Canada is organizing a Youth Advocacy Summit.
• National charity Children First Canada has digital programming lined up all day for children and youth of all ages.

If you are in Ottawa, keep an eye out for details on events organized by Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child and the Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights.

If you’re looking for relevant CPD, you can register for the OBA Education Law section’s program on November 21 titled Advanced Human Rights Issues in Education.

The Government of Canada also offers up ideas and resources for celebrating National Child Day, as does the Canadian Child Care Federation.

Finally, expect to hear from the national CBA Child and Youth Law section around November 20 about ways the CBA is working to make children’s rights real in Canada. Meanwhile, you can read the national section’s submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (PDF) as part of on a future general comment on children’s access to justice and remedies.

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