As drag storytime events are cancelled around Australia, children and young people, who are centred in the debate, have been rendered silent and invisible.
Children face the effects of prejudice over who has and who lacks rationality, logic, and authority.
Strategies that may help reduce support for corporal punishment — as well as reduce its use and intentions to use it — include individual and group-based programs to develop positive parenting skills.
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Extensive evidence shows the harms of spanking, and 65 other countries or states worldwide have already banned it. Why has Canada not done the same by repealing Section 43 of the Criminal Code?
New Zealand is making some progress in its treatment of children and young people. But there is still a way to go to meet its obligations under international law.
Our assumptions about what it means to be young have left millions of people disenfranchised.
In a Spring 2022 survey of parents with kids between ages six and 17 years, more than 50 per cent perceived that their child had needed help regarding their emotional or behavioural problems in the past six months.
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Canada ranks 30th out of 38 wealthy nations in supporting the mental health and well-being of children. The need to invest in and prioritize mental health for children and young people is urgent.
Who is determining children’s capacity to decide whether or not to wear a mask and what’s at stake in their decision?
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A new law intended to strengthen oversight of Oranga Tamariki and other agencies tasked to protect children has the potential to do the opposite.
Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation children play in water sprinklers during National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations in Mississauga, Ont., on June 21, 2022.
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Anne Levesque, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Malorie Kanaan, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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.
A child from the Mayuruna ethnic group stands on a pier on the banks of the Atalaia do Norte River in Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 12, 2022. Federal police and military forces are searching and investigating the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira.
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The fast-growing educational technology industry is poorly regulated and profits from user data. Australian law, education departments and schools can all do more to improve safeguards for children.
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Feminists in the 1970s knew the liberation of women and children was inextricably linked.
A 41-year-old man presses his palms against the window of a train as he says goodbye to his five-year-old daughter as she leaves for Lviv at the Kyiv station on March 4, 2022. He was staying behind to fight Russian forces.
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Policies and programs to address war-induced displacement in Ukraine must explicitly take into account the rights of children, including the best interests of the child.
The prime minister and police have asked that children be removed from the protest at parliament – but the situation is legally and logistically complex.
With no clear biomedical basis for most early surgery on intersex children, interventions should be postponed until a child is competent to decide for themselves.
Over the past three years, children have increasingly used their voice to protest against their governments’ inaction.
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The long-awaited ruling by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is as groundbreaking as it is disappointing. Where to next for young climate activists?
What can and should be done in light of response to the Facebook Files? The issues are undoubtedly complex, but solutions need to centre on children’s rights and prioritize what young people need.