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ADVERTISEMENT Volume 14:1: Women and Poverty: The Challenge of Social and Economic Rights Feminist activists and scholars consistently argued that equality rights guarantees would be of little value to women unless they were read as a source of substantive governmental obligation to ...

The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) strongly believes that the perspectives of Aboriginal women must be taken into account when proposed changes to the Indian Act and the proposed First Nations Governance Act are considered, particularly because Aboriginal women have been ...

Quebec’s Draft Bill on Civil Union In December 2001, Quebec’s Minister of Justice tabled a draft bill recognizing civil unions for same-sex couples. In its initial form, this new civil status included only same-sex couples. The new legislation creates a form of ...

At its most extreme, the criminalization of poverty costs lives. That is exactly what happened to Kimberly Rogers. Kimberly Rogers was charged and pled guilty to welfare fraud in April 2001. She had collected social assistance and failed to report that she ...

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Volume 21, No. 3, Fall 2002 Volume 21, No. 3, Automne 2002 Nothing ...

Uniquement disponible en anglais. Throughout the years, the National Steering Committee has been made up of dynamic women from diverse backgrounds. The new committee is no exception. NAWL is pleased to introduce the 2002-2004 NSC members: Claudine Barabé Claudine Barabé is an ...

Tuition Increases: BE IT RESOLVED that the National Association of Women and the Law strongly opposes the tuition increase approved by the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, to $22,000 over 5 years. NAWL recognizes that ...

Summary of a Presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference On International Women’s Day (March 8th), at the NAWL conference, over 300 equality activists came together to say “Hats Off” and “Thank You” to Madame Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, of the Supreme Court of ...

An exhibition of visual, sculptural, sonic and performance art by artists: Audrey Churgin, Dawn Dale, Ngoc Tuyen Dang, Kathy Gillis, Gayle Kells, Douglas Samuel, Cindy Stelmackowich and cj fleury who collaborated with members of the law community: Elizabeth Sheehy, Elizabeth Pickett, Kimberley ...

Summary of a Presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference During the 1990s, the scope of access to complainant’s confidential records was radically widened in a series of decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada that relied upon an almost inviolable interpretation of ...

Summary of a Presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference This presentation was a series of reflections on my participation in the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) non-governmental organization process, and what I thought the valuable outcomes were. The title, “new obligations to ...

Summary of a presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference In the Fall of 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada heard Louise Gosselin’s Charter claim to an adequate level of social assistance (Gosselin v. The Attorney General of Québec, 27418, decision reserved). Gosselin ...

A summary of a presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference Canada has been a leader in women’s human rights in the international human rights arena for several years. Indeed, Canada backed the campaign at the 1993 United Nations World Conference on Human ...

Summary of a Presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference A new development has emerged as adult survivors of child sexual abuse turn to civil litigation as a tool in obtaining redress for their injury: the joinder of the plaintiff’s mother as a ...

Workshop conducted by the NAWL Working Group on Transgender Issues at NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference Through a number of successful cases — specifically involving male-to-female transsexuals — provincial courts and human rights tribunals have acknowledged discrimination against transgendered persons, although specific protections ...

A Summary of a Presentation at NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference No one can deny that the pay inequities which women experience on the labour market pose great social challenges. Equal pay remains a dream for many women. In New Brunswick as elsewhere ...

A Summary of a Workshop at NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference Women belonging to cultural minorities sometimes seek state support regarding inequalities they experience in their communities. Such inequalities, justified in the name of “culture”, are often especially evident in the family law ...

Summary of presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference This presentation addressed the ‘disappearance’ of mothers in custody law reform debates over the past decade in Canada, and also looked at the ‘disappearance’ of related issues such as women’s caregiving responsibility and woman ...

From March 7 – 10, 2002, over 400 participants from throughout Canada and from Germany, China, and Brazil, gathered at the Ottawa Congress Centre for NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference on Women, the Family and the State. By all accounts, the conference was ...