About this article:
Focusing on Canada and Australia, this article explores how United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child with the United Nations Declaration applies to the over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care. It argues that child rights frameworks need to better reflect Indigenous worldviews, and that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People can help strengthen this. The article also examines the structural and systemic risks that continue to shape children’s contact with care systems.
- Year: 2020
- Authors: Cindy Blackstock, Muriel Bamblett and Carlina Black
- Organisations: First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, McGill University, VACCA, and La Trobe University
- Journal: Child Abuse & Neglect