Canadian Association of Social Workers Highlights the Rights of the Child on Human Rights Day 2009

The Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) chose to commemorate Human Rights Day 2009 last Thursday (Dec. 10) by celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

To mark the occasion, CASW and the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children urged the Canadian government to:

1. establish a national Children’s Commissioner to provide a voice for children in the Canadian government,
2. repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code (which allows parents and teachers to use force to correct a child as long as the force is “reasonable under the circumstances,” the “spanking law”), and
3. implement a National Poverty Reduction strategy with specific annual targets to reduce child poverty.

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