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Research

The goal of the IRLRC is to facilitate interdisciplinary research on issues related to children’s rights and well-being. The scope of research initiatives undertaken by the members and promoted by the Laboratory is broad and rich. A general framework for understanding the research done at the IRLRC is to recognize children’s unique personhood when considering their rights and emphasizing that children and study of child rights are influenced by the different systems in which they are nested including families, schools, neighbourhoods, legal and child welfare systems, and societies more generally. 

In order to encourage partnerships and joint projects as much as possible, the Laboratory’s Research program is organized under three complementary themes: 1. The Child and the Law; 2. The Child and the Family; 3. The Child, The State and Society.

1. The Child and the Law:

  • Childhood: the right to education and personal integrity
  • Childhood: vulnerability and marginalized groups

2. The Child and the Family

  • Lineage and personal identity
  • Disruptive movements or transfer of children

3. The Child, the State and Society

  • Protection and delinquency
  • Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Projects

Projects are posted in either English or French.

Publications
  • BROMWICH, Rebecca

    BROMWICH, Rebecca, Ph.D., Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University; professeure à temps partiel, Faculté de droit, Section de common law, Université d'Ottawa
    Livre : Looking for Ashley: Re-Reading What the Smith Case Reveals About the Governance of Girls, Mothers, and Families in Canada. Également en version électronique.

  • GERVAIS, Christine

    Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
    Chapters:
    1. Collins, T., Gervais, C., "Children's Rights: Their Role, Significance and Potential", Current Issues and Controversies in Human Rights, DiGiacomo, G. (ed.), Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016, Chapter 7

    2. Gervais, C., "From Education to Equality? Bolivian Adolescent Males' Understandings in the Wake of Gender Sensitivity Workshops", Children's Rights and International Development: Lessons and Challenges from the Field, Denov, M. Maclure, R. and K. Campbell, New York, Palgrave, June 2011, 175-192

    3. Denov, M. and Gervais, C., "Negotiating (In)Security: Agency and Resistance among Girls Formerly Associated with Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front", War and Terror: Feminist Perspectives, in Karen Alexander and Mary Hawkesworth, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2008, 35-60

    Papers: 
    1. Gervais, C., "When Boys Meet Girls' Rights: Bolivian Adolescent Males' Claims of Commitment to Gender Equality", Children & Society, 26(5), 2012, 356-367

    2. Gervais, C., "On their Own and in their Own Words: Bolivian Adolescent Girls' Empowerment through Non-Governmental Human Rights Education", Journal of Youth Studies, 14(2), 2011, 197-217

    3. Denov, M. and Gervais, C., "Negotiating (In)Security: Agency and Resistance among Girls Formerly Associated with Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 32(4), 2007, 885-910

    4. Gervais, C., L. M., and Romano, E., "Safeguarding child rights and enhancing caregiver responsibilities among Canadian parents of youth who sexually offend", Child Abuse & Neglect, Volume 76, 2018, 502-514 

    Reports:
    1. Gervais, C. and E. Romano, Resource Pamphlet for Parents, What Do You Do When Your Child Has Hurt Another Child?, Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child, University of Ottawa; Law Foundation of Ontario, December 2014

    2. Gervais, C., Standing Up for Offending Youth's Right to Play: Re-Constructing Individual Identity and Reassuring Public Safety, Children's Rights Academic Network Annual Report, Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights, Carleton University, 2015, 17-22.

    3. Gervais, C. “Standing Up for Offending Youth’s Mental Health.” Children’s Rights Academic Network 2014 Report Ottawa: Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights, Carleton University. pp. 35-38.

  • GIROUX, Michelle

    “The right to know one’s origins, the SCC Reference and Pratten v AGBC: a call for provincial legislative action, dans Trudo Lemmens, Andrew F. Martin, Ian B. Lee, and Cheryl Milne, eds., Regulating Creation. The Law, Ethics and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2017, 124- 144 (avec Cheryl Milne).

    « Les droits de l’enfant : Rapport du Canada », dans Cvejić Jaňcić (dir.), The Rights of the Child in a Changing World. 25 Years after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Switzerland, Springer, 2016 (avec Carmen Lavallée) Dans le cadre de la conférence de l’Académie internationale de droit comparé tenue à Vienne, à l’été 2014  

  • LAPIERRE, Simon

    Lancement de son livre Il se prenait pour le roi de la maison! le 29 mai 2018, livre publié conjointement avec Isabelle Côté aux éditions du remue-ménage. Read the article published in the University of Ottawa's Gazette. 

  • OUEDRAOGO, Richard

    Saisir les enjeux de la maternité de substitution sous le prisme de la théorie générale du contrat : quelles perspectives en France et au Québec?/Understanding the Issues of Surrogate Motherhood from the Perspective of the General Contract Theory: what Prospects in France and Quebec?

  • PARÉ, Mona

    Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, University of Ottawa
    Chapters:
    1. M. Paré, T. Collins & M. Ranjbar, “Taking stock of bullying and cyberbullying research and introducing a child rights perspective”, dans Ton Liefaard & Julia Sloth-Nielson ed., Conference Book 25 Years CRC, Brill-Nijhoff, 2016 (in press)

    2. M. Paré, « L’intégration rime-t-elle avec l’égalité? La versification en faveur de l’inclusion par le Tribunal des droits de la personne », dans Le Tribunal des droits de la personne et le Barreau du Québec, Le Tribunal des droits de la personne : 25 ans d'expérience en matière d'égalité, Cowansville, Yvon Blais, 2015

    3. M. Paré, “Inclusion and participation in special education processes in Ontario, Canada”, in Tali Gal and Benedetta Faedi Duramy eds. International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Policies, Oxford University Press, 2015, 37-58

    4.M. Paré, “Examining Children’s Participation as a Right Protected under Canadian Law”, in Murray, E. ed., Children Matter – Exploring Child and Youth Human Rights Issues in Canada, Mount Royal University, 2012, e-book

    5.M. Paré, « La mise en œuvre de la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant : une question de principes », dans Le Tribunal des droits de la personne et le Barreau du Québec, Race, femme, enfant, handicap : les conventions internationales et le droit interne à la lumière des enjeux pratiques du droit à l’égalité, Cowansville, Yvon Blais, 2010, 391-427

    Papers:
    1. M. Paré et T. Collins, “Government efforts to address bullying in Canada : Any place for children’s rights?”, Journal of Law and Social Policy, 2016 (in press)

    2.M. Paré, « L’accès à la justice des enfants et leur droit de participation devant les tribunaux : quelques réflexion », Revue générale de droit, Vol.44, No.1, 2014, 81-124

    3. M. Paré et N. Bélanger, « La recherche de l’inclusion scolaire à travers les recours offerts aux familles : perspective comparative canadienne dans un contexte francophone minoritaire », Revue canadienne droit et société, Vol.29, No. 3, 2014, 327-344

    4. M. Paré, “Refining the Test for Discrimination in the Context of Special Education: Moore v British Columbia” Journal of Law and Equality, Vol. 10, 2013, 79-92

    5. M. Paré, « Le langage des accommodements raisonnables: Quelles perspectives pour l'égalité des enfants handicapés en milieu scolaire? », Revue juridique Thémis, Vol.46, No.3, 2012, 485-523

    6. M. Paré, “Inclusion of students with disabilities in the age of technology: Need for human rights guidance”, Education & Law Journal, vol. 22.1, 2012, 39-61

    7. M. Paré, « L’adoption coutumière au regard du droit international: droits de l’enfant v. droits des peuples autochtones? », Revue générale de droit, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2011, 611-654

    Germain-Brière Prize
    1. M. Paré, “Of minors and the mentally ill: Re-positioning perspectives on consent to health care”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, No.1, 2011, 107-125

    Report:
    1. M. Paré, « La participation des personnes handicapées dans les décisions qui les concernent : L’exemple de l’éducation », Rapport de recherche pour la Commission du droit de l’Ontario, 2010 en ligne : http://www.lco-cdo.org/fr/disabilities-call-for-papers-pare

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