Library

Under ‘FIND Government Information’ on the library's website, there are several subject guides for this topic:

• Canadian social policy
• Child labour and children’s rights
• Country information, especially statistical information; for example,  Social Watch
• Government statistics
• Human rights
• International organizations
• Treaties, conventions and international agreements

Find government information online by using the library's customized Google search.

You can also find a list of government databases including the Canadian Research Index to the Microlog microfiche collection of federal and provincial documents on this page.

Parliamentary publications

• Debates and reports from Parliament: the House of Commons, the Senate, and Committee documents can provide valuable information. Committees include testimony by witnesses with expertise on the topic being investigated
• The Library of Parliament does a lot of background research on social policy issues, including Human rights, and Family, children and youth
• Provincial legislatures are also very important sources of policy information

These international organizations have searchable websites:  look for “child* rights”

• European Union
• United Nations for international conventions and related reports such as those by special rapporteurs
• Unicef publishes The State of the World’s Children every year and has a searchable archive of past reports
• International Labour Organization for information about child workers
• Organization of American States has a link to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• World Health Organization for health and well-being issues