First things First: Tackling poverty, defending children’s rights and preventing human trafficking

Join us on October 23, 2018, in room L120 to find out more about Canada’s poverty strategy, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and how by protecting children’s rights we can fight human trafficking.

12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Guest speakers:

• Kathy Vandergrift, Chairperson, Board of Directors, Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children
• Sister Pauline Gagne, Chairperson, External Affairs Officer and Director of Education at PACT
  (Persons Against the Crime of Trafficking in humans)
• Joe Gunn, Executive director, Citizens for Public Justice
• Matthew Mclennan, our moderator. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Saint Paul University

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