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Juristalks: Children’s civic participation through climate litigation: any chance for child-friendly justice?
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
- In-person event
- Loeb Building, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Contact
- law@carleton.ca
Children have limited opportunities to participate in active citizenship. Yet, they find ways to be involved in matters that are of importance to them, such as climate change. While courts are not a likely place to see children defend their rights and fight for causes in which they have an interest, child and youth-led climate cases have appeared in many jurisdictions around the world. How does litigation fare as a tool for children’s civic participation? Are courts a place where children can be heard and where they can actuate social change? Are their rights considered? This presentation examines climate cases led by children and youth in Canadian courts and offers an assessment of these cases based on children’s rights standards from procedural and substantive viewpoints. The importance of intergenerational alliance and the role of organizations that support children will be key discussion points.
This event will be hybrid. A Zoom link will be sent to participants upon registration. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Please register below if you wish to attend
About the speaker: Mona Paré is a Professor at the University of Ottawa, Civil Law Section. She is the director of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child (LRIDE). Mona is the first holder of the Raoul Barbe and Yolande Larose professorship on the study of judicial power that she dedicates to studying children’s access to justice. She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC-funded research project on children as human rights defenders that examines existing judicial and non-judicial remedies that enable children in Canada to claim their rights. This year, she is a visiting scholar at Carleton University, Department of Law & Legal Studies.