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The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada.

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Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe. The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. ix + 244 pp. $38.95 paper.

R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell, eds. A Question of Commitment: Children's Rights in Canada. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. xi + 441 pp. $42.95 paper.

In their 2001 publication, The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe provided a moving and well-reasoned argument for the basic human rights of children. They offered compelling reasons for social reform with a view toward advancing and protecting the rights of children globally, and specifically in Canada.

Each of the six chapters in this first book provides a logical foundation for the next, and the appendix, "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child," gives the reader an opportunity to become familiar with global efforts to recognize and implement such rights. In The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, Covell and Howe argue that children's rights need to be established, acknowledged, and preserved for the sake of children and that of the societies and world in which they live.

In the first chapter, Covell and Howe provide an analysis of the status of children in Canada and explain why children, and Canadian...

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