Aboriginal children's health : Canadian supplement to The state of the world's children 2009

Twenty years 48 after the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted with the promise of providing the best we have to give as a nation for all our children, the health The percentage of children conditions of Canada’s Aboriginal children are not what we would expect in one of and youth in the Aboriginal the most affluent countries in the world. [...] In a number of countries, UNICEF expands on The State of the World’s Children with an additional supplement detailing the domestic status of the rights and well- being of children. [...] It is a proxy measure of the efforts to address the gap in compassion of a society for its most vulnerable, and the commitment of a government to all of its citizens. [...] Not only Canadians and an issue of does it mark the twentieth anniversary of the Convention, Canada is due to report fundamental concern with to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on its implementation of the respect to the Convention on Convention. [...] The health of Aboriginal children is perpetuity.’ For all the lives inextricably bound to the health of their mothers and their communities, and is tied at stake, ‘[t]he cost of doing to the ‘health’ of the different governance systems that affect them.