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Professor Mona Paré

Mona

Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Canada

Email: mona.pare@uottawa.ca

Profile

Mona is a professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. She holds a PhD in law from Queen Mary University of London. She is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child (LRIDE/IRLRC).

Research

Publications

Selected publications in English:

Levesque, A., Bendo D., Hübsch J-F & M. Paré, “How to make legal proceedings in Canada more child friendly?”, Canadian Bar Review, forthcoming in 2025.
Paré M. et al. Eds. Children's Access to Justice: A critical Assessment, Intersentia, 2022.

Paré M., “Children’s Rights or Intergenerational Equity? Exploring children’s place in environmental justice”, in S. Atapattu, C. Gonzalez & S. Seck Eds., The Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 152-163.

Paré M. & E. De Bellefeuille, "Children’s place and voice in Quebec’s child protection proceedings", (2021) 34:1 Canadian Journal of Family Law, 119-169.

Paré M., "Children's Rights are Human Rights and Why Canadian Implementation Lags Behind", (2017) 4:1 Canadian Journal of Children's Rights, 24-47.


Paré M. & T. Chong, “Human rights violations and Canadian mining companies: exploring access to justice in relation to children’s rights” (2017) 21:7 The International Journal of Human Rights, 908-932.


Collins T.M., & Paré, M., "A Child Rights-based Approach to Anti-Violence Efforts in Schools" (2016) 24:4, International Journal of Children’s Rights, 764-802.


Paré M., “Inclusion and participation in special education processes in Ontario, Canada”, in T. Gal & B. Faedi Duramy Eds. International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Policies, Oxford University Press, 2015, 37-58.

Expertise

Children's participation, access to justice, education, child protection, equality and non-discrimination
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