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First Nations youth tell the UN "It is time for Canada to keep its promises to First Nations children"

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Community Resource Guide: “What can I do to help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal women and girls?”

January 31, 2012 (Ottawa, ON) - The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is pleased to announce the release of a new product entitled, “Community Resource Guide: What can I do to help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal women and girls?” The Community Resource Guide (CRG) is a plain-language…

Media Advisory - Canada Must Give First Nations Children Equal Rights, Indigenous Youth Tell United Nations Committee on Rights of the Child

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/569496#ixzz1l9FWFI8V

Photos: Urban art project in Colombia aims to stop child  exploitation

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First Nations file a historic human rights case against the federal government for under-funding child welfare services on reserves.

8th Fire: Q & A with Cindy Blackstone

Carleton youth raise funds for First Nation

CBC: Townhall Meeting Podcast

Aboriginal fathers have two traditional roles - to provide and to protect. But when Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in residential schools, their fathers lost their ability to protect their children. And when many of those children got out of the schools, broken from years of abuse, they had lost their capacity to provide and…

Native Daughters

Native Daughters is a two-year project from the first meeting to the finished magazine and website, involving five University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors and about 30 students. The idea stemmed from several brainstorming sessions among professors looking for a new way to tell an older story about indigenous America.

The magazine and website products were broken down into three semesters of…

Aboriginal Children's Village takes shape in Vancouver

UN Special Rapporteur on Attawapiskat Dec 20

UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples comments on the situation in Attawapiskat as an example of inequitable services on reserves. Statement also mentions human rights complaint for inequitable services filed by First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada in 2007 concerning…

http://www.fncfcs.com/shannensdream/our-dreams-matter-too

http://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/News/News/child-poverty-news/Pages/Attawapiskat-Children-Squalor-054.aspx

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1098004

http://www.straight.com/article-562426/vancouver/united-nations-committee-launch-inquiry-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women

Check out these photos taken at the Ocean Point Hotel and Royal Roads University during the recent planning meeting.  It was a great event attended by people passionate about improving the lives of children all over the world.

Photos from Child Protection in Development event in Victoria, BC October 24 - 26, 2011

The International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD, University of Victoria, BC, Canada; …

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UNDP, through the Human Development Office, and UNICEF in the Dominican Republic are jointly organizing an International Conference on “Human Development and Human Rights: two decades of advancement, what’s…

Somaliland- National Justice reform conference was started in Hargiesa on 14/6/2011 at AMBASADOR Hotel. A large number of delegates including international institutions were participated in the conference. H.E. The president of the Somaliland opened the conference. It was so wonderful that H.E. The president of Somaliland and former Minister of Justice have added and deeply expressed in their speeches about children’s justice. The former Minister of justice has requested the government and…

 The worldplayday is celebrated on the 28th of May as a remembrance of the most valuable right for children and adults. This year the message of Freda Kim founder of the Worldplayday is focused on children living in emergencies in countries with conflicts, situations in which right to play is not exercised and most of the time because mine fields are also a big danger.

 The process of play is a powerful, multifaceted learning experience. Play is central to children's learning, and…