ࡱ>  7bjbj "jj3l( ( ( ( x x x  44 !hj<K!De$fffffff$j lgx uKg3( ( #g6333( 8x f3f3 3E#`` x f0 Ew <}LbNfYg!h cQmjQmf3 ( ( ( ( National Childrens Alliance (NCA) E-mail Digest, week of 17-21 January, 2005 CALENDAR: 1.Symposium Update on NCA Annual Spring Conference, 7-8 March, 2005  NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS: 1.Call for potential host organization for the NCA 2.Request to hear from any member attending the Liberal Party Policy Convention 3.News from the Canadian Association for Community Living 4.Invitation to submit abstracts for First Peoples Child and Family Review 5.Invitation to public forum on Growing Up in Canadian Cities 6.Register for 26th International Human Rights Training Program  ISSUE ALERT: Inuit human rights are threatened by global warming  CALENDAR: We are continuing to receive registrations for the NCA Symposium in March. If you have applied for a subsidy, we will be contacting you about this by telephone shortly after the 31st of January, the deadline for applications. Some of you have had difficulty phoning the Donald Gordon Centre to make your reservations; this should be the correct toll-free number, which works across Canada: 1-866-455-2655. If you are still having trouble, you can also email your reservation or questions to Claire Grazette at  HYPERLINK "mailto:grazette@post.queensu.ca" grazette@post.queensu.ca. The NCA would like to give its youth participants a memento by which to remember the Conference. As such, we are requesting member organizations to contribute items to put together in a welcome bag for them: if you have T-shirts, hats, mugs, canvas bags, pens, pencils, etc. that you would be able to donate, please send them to the attention of Barbara Mitchell at the NCA, 331 Cooper Street, Suite 707, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 0G5 tel: (613) 560-5843 ext. 230, email:  HYPERLINK "mailto:Barbara@nationalchildrensalliance.com" Barbara@nationalchildrensalliance.com. We are expecting about 25 youth participants to attend. We wouldnt like to forget our adult participants, either! Continuing in the tradition of last year, we are also asking organizations to alternatively bring something as a door prize, which will be given off at the Banquet on the Monday evening of the conference.  NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS: The NCA is putting out a call for potential hosts for our Alliance. As we near the end of our current contribution agreement with SDC and anticipate a new one, we are looking at our options for different homes among our Ottawa-area member organizations. The Steering Committee of the NCA met recently and outlined the following five criteria we would have for any new fiduciary and physical host: Autonomy The NCA would expect to continue its history of being able to freely determine its method of operations, its advocacy and its policy positions. Infrastructure the host organization would have to have in place adequate office space, financial management mechanisms and technical support. Cultural fit the relationship between the NCA and its host would be one of equal partners, with mutual respect for each others operating principles, values and ethics. Economy the administrative costs of the new host should be modest Engagement the relationship should bring value added to both organizations If your organization is interested in exploring the possibility of hosting the National Childrens Alliance, please contact Dianne Bascombe at 560-5843 ext. 229 or email  HYPERLINK "mailto:dianne@nationalchildrensalliance.com" dianne@nationalchildrensalliance.com. Are you one of the lucky organizations or individuals attending the Liberal Party National Biennial Convention which will be held in Ottawa from March 3 6, 2005? If so, the Alliance would like to talk to you about the possibility of promoting NCA positions on children at the event. Please call Dianne at (416) 560-5843 ext. 229 to discuss. The Biennial Convention provides the Liberal Party of Canada a forum for a resolution-based policy convention. The Canadian Association for Community Living is preparing for the 5th Session of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the development of a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, which will be held in New York from January 24 February 4, 2005. CACL has continued to play an active role both internationally, through our role in the International Disability Caucus, and domestically, through direct interaction with the Canadian delegation. CACL has been particularly involved on key issues facing persons with an intellectual disability such as Legal Capacity (article 9), Living Independently (article 15), Children (article 16) and Education (article 17). 2005 marks the 60 th anniversary of the United Nations. Some governments are hopeful that the Convention will be completed in time for signing at the General Assembly in September 2005. CACL is a federation of over 400 Local Associations and 13 Provincial/Territorial Associations for Community Living, and over 40,000 people working to advance the full inclusion and human rights of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. If you would like more information on the news item above or any other news from the CACL, please subscribe to their weekly Electronic newsletter by emailing mahat@cacl.ca. The Editorial Board of the First Peoples Child & Family Review is accepting article submissions for publication in the June 2005 Edition. The theme for this edition will be Reconciliation and Child Welfare. Articles are requested by February 18 however our deadline is flexible and we may be willing to accept papers until at least the end of March. We would also be willing to coach or mentor anyone wishing to write for publication but has never done so. Further information can be obtained from the website of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society at  HYPERLINK "http://www.fncfcs.com/" \o "http://www.fncfcs.com/" www.fncfcs.com or questions can be directed to Marlyn Bennett at Email:  HYPERLINK "mailto:mbennett@fncfcs.com" mbennett@fncfcs.com. The form for submitting abstracts can be downloaded from  HYPERLINK "http://www.fncfcs.com/pubs/vol1num2/CallforPapersJune2005.pdf" http://www.fncfcs.com/pubs/vol1num2/CallforPapersJune2005.pdf. 5. The Growing up in Cities project of the International Institute for Child Rights and Development of the University of Victoria would like to invite you to attend a public forum entitled; Growing Up In Cities: Sharing Experiences, Moving Forward on February 21st 2005. This event is hosted by the City of Gatineau Youth Commission, and is part of a Growing Up In Cities project led by the International Institute for Child Rights and Development, along with our project partners, Redwire Native Youth Media, Environmental Youth Alliance, City of Gatineau Youth Commission, Heartwood Institute and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Please find an invitation in pdf format with all details at www.growingupincities.ca. 6. The Canadian Human Rights Foundation is pleased to announce this years session of the International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP). This intensive three-week training program brings together approximately 120 human rights activists from over 60 countries, including 6-8 from Canada, on an annual basis. The next session of the IHRTP will take place from June 12 to July 1st, 2005 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue just outside of Montreal. In its 26th year, the IHRTP has a proven track record of helping participants to enhance their human rights knowledge and skills and develop effective human rights education strategies. The presence of international and Canadian experts, participants representing over 60 countries and the participatory methodology provide a unique opportunity for Canadian human rights activists and educators to learn from a wide range of national and international experience and perspectives. The IHRTP is designed for organizations and individuals engaged in human rights promotion and education, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), human rights institutions (such as ombudsman offices or human rights commissions), labour unions and educational institutions). Canadian participants from the past have found the knowledge and skills acquired during the IHRTP helped them to integrate participatory educational methods into their work and to develop new human rights training and education initiatives on a variety of themes. The IHRTP is the cornerstone of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation (CHRF)'s activities. Established in 1967, the CHRF is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with a mandate to advance democracy, human development, peace and social justice through educational programs in Canada and around the world. For more information on our activities in Canada, as well as in Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, please visit our website at  HYPERLINK "http://www.chrf.ca/" www.chrf.ca. Recognizing that this training session may be of interest to your organization, we invite you to read the application form and the description of the program contained therein. This application form is also available on our web site. Please note that the deadline for receiving applications is February 23, 2005. In past years, the CHRF has been able to award a certain number of bursaries to Canadian participants. This bursary covers all the participation fees, including room and board. We expect to be able to do this again this year. Priority in the selection process will be given to Canadian organizations working on human rights education in Canada. For more information, please contact Frdric Hareau, IHRTP Program Officer at  HYPERLINK "mailto:hareau@chrf.ca" hareau@chrf.ca.  ISSUE ALERT: Inuit to take US to court over global warming Protecting their lives as well as their culture is the motivation behind the decision of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by substantially contributing to global warming, is threatening their existence. The members of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, a UN-accredited, quasi-governmental group representing about 150 000 indigenous peoples living in the Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska, Greenland and the Chukotka region of Russia, made the announcement at the end of a meeting on climate change being held in Buenos Aires this past December. Participants at the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change were alarmed by a report on the impact of global warming on the Arctic Climate presented by the eight-nation Arctic Council; the study projected wholesale changes to the Arctic environment and to the social, economic, and cultural circumstances of the regions residents, particularly Indigenous peoples. They are casting the issue as no longer simply an environmental problem, but as an assault on their basic human rights. The Inuit Circumpolar Conference will be working with Earthjustice, a nonprofit San Francisco law firm and the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, DC, to file the petition and would soon begin the process of collecting videotaped statements from elders and hunters about the impacts they were experiencing from the shrinking northern ice caps. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an investigative arm of the Organization of American States (OAS), has no enforcement powers. Nevertheless, it has a record of treating environmental degradation as a human rights matter and a number of legal experts have said that a declaration that the US has violated the Inuits rights could create the foundation for an eventual lawsuit, either against the US in an international court or against American companies in a US court. The Inuit have standing in the Organization of American States through Canada. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment done by the Arctic Council concluded that human influences are now the dominant factor in climate change in the Arctic regions and several other studies in recent moth have identified heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe emissions as contributing to large environmental changes in the Arctic. Inuit delegates at the Buenos Aires conference said they would also use the opportunity to meet with representatives from small-island nations that could eventually be swamped by rising seas, swelled by melted water from shrinking glaciers and Arctic ice sheets. One of those countries, Tuvalu, threatened to sue the United States at the International Court of Justice in 2002 for the rising sea levels threatening this Pacific Ocean nation of atolls no more than 5 metres above sea level, but dropped the idea for a variety of reasons. They may revisit the idea if the Inuit petition is successful.  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