Be the Change: The Phoenix Consultation - Children's Right to a Healthy Environment
Channel: IICRD
Date: 2021-09-04

In North America, as elsewhere, children’s rights are facing unprecedented and intersecting threats due to unfolding environmental, health, and climate emergencies. 

Dealing with the impacts of fires and floods is becoming part of the day-to-day reality for children, especially those facing inequities. 

Yet, children have important perspectives, expertise, and capacities to share. They are activating their rights for a healthier environment.

A few of them tell us why it's important for all of us to...

BE THE CHANGE

This video was created by children and youth for the Phoenix Consultation. This is a virtual intergenerational consultation on the right of children and youth to a healthy environment for the North American region (July 15-18, 2021).

Our thanks to child and youth contributors for sharing their ideas about their right to a healthy environment, including:

Everest (interviewer) and Willem (videographer); and interviewees: Aurora, Charlotte, Sebastian, Mabel, Haedy, Abby, and Ollie. Many other child chalk artists shared their ideas as well.

This video project was also supported by adult allies: Val (aka Giggles), Rebeccah (Singer/Songwriter), and Elaina (Coordinator). They are connected to the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) and lots of other partners too! This project was generously funded by the Capital Regional District. 

This video was filmed and produced on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, where we gratefully learn, work, and play. These lands are now known as Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.