14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
WFF Campaign 2004 Is On!
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. The Women’s Future Fund is pleased and proud to announce the launch of Campaign 2004. Building on the success of last year’s campaign, this year we hope to raise $50,000 in cash and pledges to ...
14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
Legal Aid in Nova Scotia
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Through a series of provincial meetings and focus groups conducted by the Nova Scotia Coalition of Women for Justice between 2000 and 2002, women in Nova Scotia identified access to adequate legal representation and legal ...
14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
Race(ing) Family Law?: The Challenges
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. The process of responding to the proposed amendments to the once “live” Bill C-22 sparked a series of continued conversations across Canada among Aboriginal women, women of colour, and immigrant and refugee women as to ...
14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
Disability and Family Law
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. My life as a single parent began shortly after a motor vehicle accident that left me a quadriplegic. My husband was not able or willing to make the commitment to having a wife with a ...
14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
Sharia as Family Law in Canada?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Some Canadian Muslims are proposing the implementation of sections of Shariah (Muslim law) to settle family disputes outside the court system through arbitration committees or tribunals. Due to provisions of the Arbitration Act, the arbitrated ...
14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
Common Law Partnerships and Marital Property: Time for a Change?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Introduction Every family law lawyer is aware of the pervasive, but mistaken, belief that long term common law heterosexual partnerships are now treated in law in the same way as marital partnerships. They can all ...
14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
Bill C-22: Where Now?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. When Bill C-22, An Act to Amend the Divorce Act, died in November 2003, a long chapter in NAWL’s work on reforms to custody and access legislation came to a close. We now find ourselves ...
3 February 2004
February 3, 2004
Women’s Reproductive Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights
The American Convention on Human Rights is an important human rights instrument, yet it contains a right to life provision. NAWL will not endorse ratification of the American Convention until we have the assurance that women’s reproductive rights, including the right to ...
1 January 2004
January 1, 2004
Volume 23, No. 1, Winter 2004 / Volume 23, No. 1, Hiver 2004
Volume 23, No. 1, Winter 2004 Volume 23, No. 1, Hiver 2004 Nothing ...
24 November 2003
November 24, 2003
Ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights: The Stakes for Women
This report was written for the Working Group on Abortion, Reproductive Health, and Women’s Citizenship in the Americas of the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL). Table of Contents Foreword & Acknowledgments Introduction The OAS and the Inter-American Human Rights ...
1 November 2003
November 1, 2003
Ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights: The Stakes for Women
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25 October 2003
October 25, 2003
Faith-Based Arbitration
In 2003, the Ontario Islamic Institute of Civil Justice announced that it would be offering a “Sharia Court” to Ontario Muslims. The “Sharia Court” would conduct binding arbitrations according to Islamic law. Why People Are Talking About Faith-Based Arbitration In 2003, the ...
22 October 2003
October 22, 2003
Custody and Access
Women remain the primary caregivers of children. Women are more likely to abandon professional and economic benefits in order to facilitate that relationship. When they separate or divorce, women are far more likely to end up in poverty than their former male ...
17 October 2003
October 17, 2003
Women’s Human Rights on Indian Reserves
On Indian Reserves, women’s human rights can be violated without any legal remedy. NAWL’s working group on Aboriginal Women’s Rights urges the federal government to take immediate action to ensure that women’s matrimonial property rights are fully recognized and respected on Reserves. ...
17 October 2003
October 17, 2003
Matrimonial Property on Indian Reserves
On Indian reserves, provincial law that usually applies to matrimonial property in case of separation or divorce does not apply. When women separate or divorce, they are left without the protection of the law. NAWL’s working group on Aboriginal Women’s Rights has ...
17 October 2003
October 17, 2003
Same-Sex Marriage
Not allowing lesbians to marry sends the message that lesbian relationships are not valuable or worthy of support. Lesbians want the ability to marry to obtain the benefits of marriage and also to change that historical message of exclusion. They also want ...
14 October 2003
October 14, 2003
How Fair is the MBM to Women?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. On May 27, 2003, Human Resources Development Canada released its new approach to measuring low income, the so-called Market Basket Measure (MBM). This method calculates the cost of food, clothing, shelter and other essentials deemed ...
14 October 2003
October 14, 2003
UN Special Rapporteur Visits Canada, 15-26 September 2003
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. At the invitation of the Canadian government, the Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Doudou Diene, visited Canada from 15-26 September 2003. During his stay, the former Senegalese diplomat and UNESCO ...
14 October 2003
October 14, 2003
Commentary on Canada (Attorney General) v. Lesiuk
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Before becoming known by a section 15 Charter case bearing her name, Kelly Lesiuk was a registered nurse, and worked part-time in Brandon, Manitoba. She and her husband had a small child, and she was ...
14 October 2003
October 14, 2003
Bill C-22: Update
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. NAWL’s ongoing work in the area of custody and access has been focused on Bill C-22, An Act to Amend the Divorce Act, since Justice Minister Martin Cauchon introduced it into the House of Commons ...
