This event, featuring Indigenous perspectives, will explore how indigeneity and disability impact children from Indigenous communities.
Situated in the context of Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recent calls for reconciliation, this event will highlight Indigenous perspectives on barriers to the recognition and enforcement of the rights of Indigenous children with disabilities. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities guarantees all people with disabilities, including Indigenous children with disabilities, the right to participation in cultural life (art. 30), the right to education (art. 24), the right to health (art. 25) and equal rights in family life (art. 23(3)-(5)).
This event will explore the obstacles that Indigenous children with disabilities can face in accessing services such as education and health care, and how these obstacles impact Indigenous children’s right to full participation in cultural and family life. Engaging with the Canadian legal framework, Indigenous law and the UNCRPD, this event will call participants to work together to ensure that the rights of Indigenous children with disabilities are upheld as part of our shared process of reconciliation.