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Collaboration Equips Lawyers to Hear from Children Oct 14, 2009

How do lawyers and judges hear the views of children in family courts?   What are the skills necessary to make this happen?

IICRD's Gordon Smith Wins Vanier Medal for Service to Canada Aug 27, 2009

We are very excited to announce that Gordon Smith will be awarded the Vanier Medal For Service To Canada.

IICRD Honours the Late Chief Judge Hugh Stansfield Jun 12, 2009

The IICRD team was deeply saddened by the recent passing of the Honourable Chief Judge Hugh Stansfield on May 7, 2009 from cancer. 

IICRD is featured in the Victoria Times Colonist Jun 04, 2009

IICRD's Legal Director Suzanne Williams has been featured in Victoria's Times Colonist newspaper.

Career Opportunity May 22, 2009

IICRD currently has a new career opportunity.

IICRD creates a book in honour of Cynthia Price Cohen Aug 20, 2008

IICRD is compiling a book presenting challenging ideas and visions for advancing children’s rights.

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings...their importance, their dignity...and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the
world.

Eleanor Roosevelt,
USA