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• Title:Restoring dignity : responding to child abuse in Canadian institutions.
  
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• Variant Title:Responding to child abuse in Canadian institutions
  
• Corporate Author/Creator:Law Commission of Canada.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:[Ottawa] : Law Commission of Canada, ©2000.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SA L363 R47 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools.
  Indigenous Peoples--Child abuse.
  Indigenous Peoples--Child abuse--Healing.
  Indigenous Peoples--Child abuse--Accountability.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Children--Institutional care--Canada.
  Child abuse--Investigation--Canada.
  Child sexual abuse--Investigation--Canada.
  Youth--Crimes against--Canada.
  
• Description:xvii, 455 p. ; 25 cm
  
• Additional formats:Executive summary also available on the internet.
  
• Notes:Issued also in French under title: La dignité retrouvée, la réparation des sévices infligés aux enfants dans des établissements canadiens.
  Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.
  Includes bibliographical references: pages 427-455.
  
• ISBN:0662281543
  
• Contents:Part I - Issues
  A. Why a report on institutional child abuse?
  B. What children experienced
  C. Residential schools for Aboriginal children
  D. Needs identified
  Part II - Responses
  A. Criteria of assessment, approaches to redress and guiding principles
  B. The criminal justice process
  C. Civil actions
  D. Criminal injuries compensation programs
  E. Ex gratia payments
  F. Ombudsman offices
  G. Children's advocates and commissions
  H. Public inquiries
  I. Truth commissions and similar processes to address systemic human rights abuses
  J. Community initiatives
  K. Redress programs
  L. Maintaining a diversity of approaches to providing redress
  Part III - Commitments
  A. Prevention
  B. Reflections
  Recommendations
  Appendix A: Minister's letter
  Appendix B: Bibliography.