Child Care is a Right
 In partnership with CCAAC (Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada), CCCABC is proud to announce our new project “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.
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Project information and publications
CCCABC is invited to the United Nations
January 2012
Introduction to the 'Child Care is a Right' project and information about the UN process
May 2010
Factsheets
June 2011
A Tale of Two Canadas: Implementing Rights in Early Childhood
February 2011
- Child Care is a Right Project releases A Tale of Two Canadas
- Download the full brief (english - 23 pages) / Récit de deux Canada (en français - 28 pages)
- Download the overview (english - 2 pages) / Aperçu (en français - 3 pages)
- Download the appendices (english - 18 pages) / Annexes (en français - 20 pages)
Child Care is a Right postcards
April 2011
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Our right to advocate
Why are we so passionate about advocating for our rights – and does the United Nations really care?
Our child care advocacy movement began as a central issue of the women’s rights movements. For over 30 years, the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC has advocated for quality, affordable, accessible child care to enhance the lives of women and children. We believe that Canada signed on to the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention to Eliminate Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in good faith, and with that same good faith, we work now to hold Canada accountable for its lack of action.
Does the UN really care what CCCABC has to say?
The answer is a resounding yes! While the process may be a bit difficult to navigate, the UN has established a number of ways for organizations like ours to inform the review committee’s work and to suggest questions that should be put to Canada’s government representatives.
“The Committee on the Right of the Child seeks specific, reliable and objective information from NGO’s (non governmental organizations [like CCCABC]) in order to obtain a serious and independent assessment of the progress and difficulties encountered in the implementation of the CRC.”
So, it is our responsibility as concerned and engaged citizens of Canada to be part of the review process and demand the rights of children and women are upheld in our country.
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Conventions
What Commitments has Canada made to Children, Women and Families?
By ratifying (or approving) the following agreements, Canada has committed to protecting and ensuring rights for the following groups (among others). Canada has also agreed to be accountable for these commitments before the international community
On Children and Families
On Women
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Canada Reports to the UN
Has Canada always reported the whole truth? – Public Reporting to the International Community
On Children and Families
On Women
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What have grassroots organizations said? Civil Society reports to the UN
On Children and Families
On Women
- 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
- No Action, No Progress: FAFIA's Report on Canada's Progress in Implementing Priority Recommendations made by the CEDAW Committee in 2008
- CEDAW Report Card 2009
Westcoast Leaf
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The UN makes its evaluation. What does the UN say about Canada’s progress (or lack of it)?
On Children and Families
On Women
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Links to other Rights organizations
On Children and Families
On Women
- FAFIA
- WomenWatch
Central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system
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Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
- Missing women probe becomes sad spectacle: Penny-pinching provincial government has left its most vulnerable citizens out in the cold
Vancouver Sun;
October 11, 2011
- All but one group exits B.C. Missing Women Inquiry in funding feud
Postmedia News; October 6, 2011
- Two leading human rights groups quit B.C. missing women inquiry
Vancouver Observer/Canadian Press;
October 6, 2011
- Legal group pulls out of B.C.'s Missing Women Inquiry
CBC News,
September 20, 2011
- Opinion: Denial of justice at the Missing Women Commission more than a shame to the country
Vancouver Sun,
September 12, 2011
- Pickton inquiry's problems underscore the truth about poverty: With its narrow scope and financial challenges, it seems Oppal commission is as powerless as the vulnerable women it aims to serve
Vancouver Sun,
August 16, 2011
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Related material
Kamloops Children’s Charter of Rights / Kamloops Youth's Charter of Rights
Make Children First Kamloops
Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On
A Canadian Civil Society Response
February 22, 2010
Harper runs roughshod over women's rights
Murray Dobbin, Rabble.ca
February 8, 2010
Olympic Games: Stark Contrast to Poverty and Violence
Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper and Premier Campbell from The B.C. CEDAW Group and Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs
February 2010
B.C. fails to meet international women’s rights standards
BC CEDAW Group news release and responses
February 2010
Open Letter from Kathy Corrigan, MLA
In regards to the release of 'Nothing to Report' from the BC CEDAW Group
February 2010
Letter to The Honourable Wally Oppal, Attorney General of British Columbia
BC CEDAW Group
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