Are you interested in learning about the links between education, Indigenous rights and sustainability?
Are you inspired by the leadership of children and youth to advance the global Sustainable Development Goals?
Would you like to help implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, by encouraging Indigenous children’s voices?
Register now for a very special online International Roundtable on Indigenous Children's Voices & Rights, which takes place on Tuesday 9 August 2022 at 8:00 EST | 11:00 EST |16:00 BST in celebration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
This Online International Roundtable on Indigenous Children’s Voices & Rights engages young leaders from different Nations as well as specialists and experts working to promote Indigenous Peoples' and children’s rights. In an interactive and intergenerational dialogue, it seeks to strengthen and promote Indigenous Children’s Rights and the global Sustainable Development Goals.
The event features Indigenous Child Author Adelyn Sophie Newman-Ting, the first Voices of Future Generations Indigenous Child Author, and Indigenous Child Ambassadors Bella Morrisseau and Sydnee Wynter. Honoured chairs and speakers also include Adv. Wayne Garnons-Williams (National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada Chair), Ms. Elaina Cox (Senior Researcher, First Nations Treaties for SDGs Project, University of Waterloo), Ms. Eva Wu (Senior Researcher, First Nations Treaties for SDGs Project, University of Waterloo), Ms. Afnan Dawod (REEM/ Al-Mahsery tribe, West Alquds, Palestine), Ms. Portia Garnons-Williams (Senior Editor of Harmony Online Journal & University of Toronto student), Master Nico Roman (Junior Editor of Harmony Online Journal & Child Ambassador, VoFG CI), Dr. Aruna Alexander (UNA- Canada, Quinte Branch), Ms. Jaydum Hunt (Interim Director, Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, WISC), Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (University of Cambridge / University of Waterloo / CISDL), Dr. Odeeth Lara-Morales (University of Waterloo / CISDL / UNA-Canada), Ms. Courtney Defriend (Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, First Nations Health Authority), Skw'akw'as (Sunshine) Dunstan-Moore, Community Climate Justice Coordinator VIDEA), Ms. Kyla Judge (Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Youth Advisory Group Member and Cultural Program Officer at the UNESCO Georgian Bay Biosphere Region), and Ms. Barbara Filion (Culture Program Officer and lead on the UN Decade for Indigenous Language, CCUNESCO).
With warmest thanks to the partners and collaborators:
Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)
National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada
Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre Shatitsirótha’ (WISC)
And a special thanks to our friends and mentors from:
