Children’s Rights Resource Collection
The Landon Pearson Resource Collection
The LPC Resource Collection contains more than 14,000 documents, the largest collection of children’s rights materials in Canada, including the original materials regarding the development of children’s rights in Canada and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. All materials are held in A735 Loeb, at Carleton University, in Ottawa. A video tour of the Collection is available, with the Honourable Landon Pearson explaining the resources:
Part 2 of 3 on YouTube reviews “Articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child” and Part 3 is “The Study of Childhood in Russia and Other Cultures.”
Selection of the Honourable Landon Pearson’s publications
2019: “The Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children: Origin and Early Days.”
2015: 20th anniversary of the First World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children Report. Stockholm +20: Looking Back, Moving Forward.
2012: Shaking the Movers: A Model for Collaborative Consultation with Children and Youth on Public Policy.
2012: “Florence Bird Lecture” hosted by the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies, Carleton University. Title: From Strength to Strength: The Interrelated Rights of Women and Children over the Life Cycle.
2010: Classroom resources from Media Awareness Network: Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media, and the French version: Faire bouger les décisionnaires : droits des jeunes et les médias.
2009: “Not There Yet: Canada’s implementation of the general measures of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” UNICEF Canada and the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
2009: Senator Landon Pearson’s presentation to The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, which met to examine the issue of sexual exploitation of children in Canada.
2009: Vanier Institute of the Family. “Raising the Status of Children: An Interview with Landon Pearson.” Transition: Autumn 2008 Edition (written by Elaine Lowe).
2007: Children: The Silenced Citizens: Effective Implementation of Canada’s International Obligations with Respect to the Rights of Children, Final Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. (Also, in French: Les enfants: des citoyens sans voix.)
2004: A Canada Fit for Children: Canada’s plan of action in response to the May 2002 United Nations Special Session on Children, Government of Canada. (In French: Un Canada digne des enfants.)
2002: Centre for Children, Youth and Citizenship.
2001: A Commissioner for Canada’s Children.
1997: Seen and Heard: Children’s Rights as a Foreign Policy Concern, Landon Pearson’s 1997 O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture on a foreign policy issue, from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (now called Global Affairs Canada), Ottawa. (Also in French: Présence et affirmation des droits de l’enfant dans la politique étrangère.)
Other resources
The International Child Soldier Index Soldiers Index (2021), by Geoffrey Pearson.