Federal Court Directs Human Rights Tribunal to Hear Child-Welfare Case

ICTMN Staff
April 18, 2012
Aboriginal leaders and human rights advocates are hailing a federal court ruling that requires the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to take on a case it had dismissed involving fundi...

Funding Inequities Amount to Racism Against Canada's Aboriginal Children, Federal Court Hears

ICTMN Staff
February 13, 2012
Aboriginal child welfare was on the docket in Federal Court on February 13 as child advocates argued that inequities in funding between on-reserve education, health and children’s ...
Gyasi Ross

A Fight, A Fight, an Indian and a White! Of Childhood Chants and Indian Child Welfare

On the rez, the kids at my school got into fights quite a bit. We had this saying, when one of the few white kids (or one of the Indian kids that “looked white”) who went to our school was involved: “A fight!...

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January 10, 2012

Canadian Government Keeps Close Tabs on Child Advocate Cindy Blackstock

ICTMN Staff
November 16, 2011
Child advocate Cindy Blackstock, long a champion of aboriginal children's rights, is on the federal government's radar, but not for her work improving the lives of children...

First Nations Agency Goes to Court over Child Welfare Shortcomings

ICTMN Staff
March 01, 2011
The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada appealed to the courts on Monday to force the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to face charges that it “racially discrimin...

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