Child Advocates travel to Bogota to make presentation

Alberta and Saskatchewan child advocates travel to Bogota to make presentation to human rights group

Edmonton…Del Graff, Alberta Child and Youth Advocate, and Corey O’Soup, Saskatchewan Advocate for Children and Youth will be traveling to Bogota, Colombia as part of a joint presentation to the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the issue of youth suicide.

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