CHILD CARE IS A RIGHT
In partnership with the CCCABC (Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC), the CCAAC is proud to announce our new project (2010) “Child Care is a Right”. The child care movement began as a central issue of the women’s rights movement so it’s natural that we would return to our roots and begin to explore child care from a women’s, children and family rights position.
The core of our work will be to explore Canada's international treaty obligations to women, children and families as they pertain to child care. We are focusing on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and related General Comment #7, the Convention to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Goals of the project include:
- conducting legal research to clearly draw out the implications of BC’s obligations under international treaties to protect children and women’s rights for child care;
- undertaking public education about a rights based approach to women’s and children’s rights based on the research – with child care as the example; and
- advancing concrete options for legal and other reforms that support BC’s compliance with its international obligations
Stay tuned for updates on this exciting project.
Related Readings
Introduction to the 'Child Care is a Right' project and information about the UN process
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention on the Rights of the Child – Third and Fourth Reports of Canada
covering the period January 1998 – December 2007
CEDAW report (Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) 6 and 7th report
covering the period April 1999-March 2006
CEDAW Report Card 2009
Westcoast Leaf
What does CEDAW mean for child care in Canada?
Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, February 2009
CEDAW considers report of Canada
October 2008
Nothing to Report
CEDAW report Submission of the B.C. CEDAW Group To the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [in response to Canada’s Follow-up Report on Progress in Implementing Priority Recommendations made by the Committee in its 2008 Concluding Observations on Canada