Public Eye reports that information about B.C.’s human rights record was not included in Canada’s submission to the United Nations on the status of children’s rights in the country, as part of the Convention on the Rights of the Child:

A Canadian submission to the United Nations omits key information in its reporting on measures taken to protect child rights in British Columbia, according to the province’s independent children and youth representative. Under international law, the submission – which covers the period from 1998 to 2007 – is supposed to indicate any “factor or difficulties” affecting a country’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. But, in response to an interview request from Public Eye, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond said its section on British Columbia “misses the biggest things or doesn’t frame the issues in quite the way I think they need to be framed.” read more