Under international law, children have the right to be heard in legal proceedings directly or indirectly affecting them. Canada must step up to ensure all human rights apply to kids as they do adults.
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As the number of unmarked graves found will likely only increase over the months and years to come, we can’t forget that every child matters.
In today’s episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we take a look at what has happened since the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children were found in Kamloops B.C.
Considering our relationships to stories about the past and looking at learning as a process of encounter can help Canadians to become better treaty partners.
Canadians who wish to pay tribute to the children who died at Indian Residential Schools should demand the government stop fighting First Nations children in court.
Non-Indigenous Canadians are right to feel shame about Indian Residential Schools. But what comes next?
Acts of genocide were strategically implemented by church and the Canadian government to remove Indigenous people from their land and, in turn, their culture.
Ending the Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples is a legal obligation, requiring honest, active decolonization. The lawyer who wrote the MMIWG’s inquiry’s legal analysis of genocide explains.
An Indigenous lawyer makes the case that what happened to Indigenous children who went to residential schools is genocide and the case should be tried by the International Criminal Court.
A commitment to eliminating racism must be reflected in accountability mechanisms that focus on the impacts of coordinated and consistent anti-racist action.
Canadians need to understand the basic harms and violences that continue to be experienced by Indigenous people across the land we call Canada.
Canada has officially recognized eight genocides that have happened around the world. It has not done the same for its own treatment of Indigenous children who they sent to Indian Residential Schools.
Ground-penetrating radar located the remains of 215 First Nations children in a mass unmarked grave, revealing a macabre part of Canada’s hidden history.
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Assistant Professor, School of Political Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph
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Professor of Secondary Education, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
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Acting Dean and Associate Professor, Law, University of Windsor
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Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton University
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LLM droit, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor, Political Science and Director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
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Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Windsor
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Indigenous Theologian
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Professeure titulaire en droit et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la justice internationale pénale et les droits fondamentaux , Université Laval
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Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, University of Alberta
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University of Alberta
