Indigenous People's Day Episode: What the world believes about the rights of indigenous kids

Release date: October 9, 2023

Globally, the rights of indigenous kids are protected, in part, by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. For this mini Indigenous People’s Day episode of Talking About Kids, I briefly examine the adversities indigenous kids face, what the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child asserts about the rights of indigenous kids and all kids, and the United States’ position on those rights. Links to the materials I cite are below. Full-length Talking About Kids episodes will return next week (October 16, 2023).

Links

The Situation of the World’s Indigenous Children and Youth

https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/mandated-areas1/children-and-youth.html

Congressional Research Service's report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R40484/25#:~:text=It%20defines%20a%20child%20as,and%20freedom%20from%20exploitation%2C%20torture%2C