Rights Tribunal: Children and Rights

rights tribunal: Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS By Azeezah Kanji Wed., April 19, 2017 Canada's newest honorary citizen, Malala Yousafzai, has been feted globally as an icon in the fight for children's rights, according to Toronto Star. Shot by the Taliban when she was 15, Malala is easy for Canadians to embrace because the Taliban is easy to revile. Blackstock has been advocating for the rights of indigenous children at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for the last 10 years. It is more difficult and yet, more important for us to see how Canada also participates in children's suffering, both through action and through silence. Among them are the children of Afghanistan, already traumatized by a lifetime of war, who had the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. military's arsenal dropped on their country last week. Remember the children who are assaulted not by the bullets of those we call enemies, but by the bombs of those we call friends. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.