This brief outlines Amnesty International’s concerns and associated recommendations with respect to violations of the rights of children in Canada for consideration in relation to the upcoming adoption of the list of issues and subsequent review of Canada by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The brief includes a number of issues related to Indigenous children, children in immigration detention, access to health care for Canadian children of individuals without regularized immigration status, intersex children and inadequate consular protection of Canadian children in Syria.
