The Convention on the Rights of the Child Canada has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and has promised to provide basic human rights to all children. The Convention says that every child has the right to enough to eat. But hundreds of thousands of Canadians are going hungry and have to go to food banks because they do not have enough to eat. These children are not getting sufficient food or healthy nutrition. Their physical health suffers and so does their emotional health.
Every kid has the right to security, which means having enough to eat.
Going hungry and depending on whatever may, or may not, be given out at a food bank, harms the security and self-esteem of children and adults. They get the message that their health and dignity are not respected. They get the message that they are second-class citizens. The Convention on the Rights of the Child says that the first priority of any country must be the rights of children. Canada has promised to make children its top priority but it is not keeping its promise.