The Canadian Human Rights Commission has said that more attention must be paid to the rights of children, who it says are being left behind when it comes to basic rights of dignity, safety, education and family.
The agency’s annual report for the year 2016 to the Parliament released on Wednesday said that it want to shine a light on the problems of children.
The report looked at issues such as child welfare services on First Nations reserves, the rights of transgender children, children with disabilities and migrant children locked up in detention centres alongside their parents as the system processes their cases.
The federal government has been promising a fix for child welfare services on reserves, but First Nations groups say no real progress has been made. The report said transgender children often report bullying and harassment. Children with disabilities reported similar problems.
It quoted a University of Toronto estimate that between 2010 and 2014, an average of 242 children in Canada were detained annually for immigration reasons. It said this number is low because it does not include children who are themselves not under formal detention orders but are accompanying parents who are.
Marie-Claude Landry, the chief commissioner, said fair treatment for children is the best way of ensuring human rights overall.
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