The child is not only someone who has to be protected, but someone who has a right to respect and consideration of his or her own dignity.
Current IICRD Projects
Project |
Category | |
|---|---|---|
| Child Protection Partnership / CPP | Child Protection |
CPP is a multisector collaboration protecting children and their rights from sexual exploitation enabled by worldwide use of information and communication technology (ICT). |
| Child Rights Education for Professionals (CRED-PRO) | Community of Practice |
CRED-PRO is an international initiative endorsed by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. |
| General Comment on Article 19 of the UNCRC | Community of Practice |
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has given the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) and IICRD the opportunity to draft a General Comment (GC) for Article |
| Growing Up in Cities Canada (GUICC) | Youth Engagement and Community Resilience |
IICRD brought a focus to the importance of engaging young people in creating child and youth friendly communities and including them in the decision-making process. |
| Hear the Child | Child Justice |
The Hear the Child Project focuses on ways to support children and their participation in family justice processes. |
| Improving Services to Youth at Risk (YAR) | Child Justice |
Improving Services to Youth at Risk was a multi-dimensional project facilitating the social integration of youth at risk and their families. |
| Int'l Child Protection and Rights Consortium | Child Protection |
ICPRC was created in 2006 to bring together social scientists, governments, UN agencies, and NGOs working to bring about broad based systems change in support of child protection. |
| MCFD and Nenan | Child Protection |
IICRD is working closely with Aboriginal communities across BC to develop culturally and community based systems to support children and families. |
| Save US | Community of Practice |
Save the Children USA along with Save the Children Alliance are advocating for a community-based approach to prepare for natural disasters that centers on building the resiliency of children and co |
| SEARCH | Child Protection |
SEARCH is a multi-partner initiative designed to improve legal and institutional mechanisms for the promotion and protection of the rights of children, ethnic minorities, and migrant workers. |
| YouthScape | Youth Engagement and Community Resilience |
Focused on engaging excluded or marginalized youth to create stronger more resilient communities and longterm, sustainable systems change.
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