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Children’s Rights Resource Collection

The Landon Pearson Resource Collection

The contains more than 14,000 documents, the largest collection of children’s rights materials in Canada, including the original materials regarding the development of children’s rights in Canada and the . All materials are held in A735 Loeb, at 杏吧原创 University, in Ottawa. A video tour of the Collection is available, with the Honourable Landon Pearson explaining the resources:

reviews “Articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child” and  

Selection of the Honourable Landon Pearson’s publications

2019: “The Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children: Origin and Early Days.”

2015: 20th anniversary of the First World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children Report.聽Stockholm +20:聽Looking Back, Moving Forward.

2012:聽 Shaking the Movers: A Model for Collaborative Consultation with Children and Youth on Public Policy.

2012:聽“Florence Bird Lecture” hosted by the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies, 杏吧原创 University. Title: From Strength to Strength: The Interrelated Rights of Women and Children over the Life Cycle.

2010: Classroom resources from Media Awareness Network: , and the French version: .

2009: “Not There Yet: Canada’s implementation of the general measures of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” UNICEF Canada and the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.

2009: Senator Landon Pearson’s presentation to The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, which met to examine the issue of sexual exploitation of children in Canada.

2009: Vanier Institute of the Family. “Raising the Status of Children: An Interview with Landon Pearson.” Transition: Autumn 2008 Edition (written by Elaine Lowe).

2007: Children: The Silenced Citizens: Effective Implementation of Canada’s International Obligations with Respect to the Rights of Children, Final Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. (Also, in French: Les enfants: des citoyens sans voix.)

2004: A Canada Fit for Children: Canada鈥檚 plan of action in response to the May 2002 United Nations Special Session on Children, Government of Canada. (In French: Un Canada digne des enfants.)

2002:聽Centre for Children, Youth and Citizenship.

2001:聽A Commissioner for Canada’s Children.

1997: Seen and Heard: Children鈥檚 Rights as a Foreign Policy Concern, Landon Pearson’s 1997 O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture on a foreign policy issue, from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (now called Global Affairs Canada), Ottawa. (Also in French: Pr茅sence et affirmation des droits de l’enfant dans la politique 茅trang猫re.)

Other resources

The International Child Soldier Index Soldiers Index (2021), by Geoffrey Pearson.