The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

by Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe

Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children's rights. What are Canada's obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian society that children's rights be met? Prompted by the gap between the promise of children's rights and the reality of their continuing denial, Katherine Covell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889203806
• ISBN13: 9780889203808
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"