11 December 2009
December 11, 2009
Canada’s Commitment to Equality: A Gender Analysis of the Last 10 Federal Budgets
Ce document est seulement disponible en anglais. In 1995, 188 countries, including Canada, adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, setting out a detailed plan for addressing women’s poverty, economic security and health. A decade later, the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action ...
19 November 2009
November 19, 2009
Pay Equity
The Problem More than 25 years the adoption of the Canadian Human Rights Act, women working full-time still earn 71% of men’s salaries, regardless of our age, occupation or education. For women of colour, Aboriginal women and women with a disability, the ...
18 November 2009
November 18, 2009
Maternity and Parental Benefits
Québec has them, so why can’t the rest of Canada? Mothering a child is associated with a significant drop in income. It has lifelong consequences for a woman’s earning capacity and employment-related benefits like pensions. And that’s above and beyond feeding and ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
An Update on Pay Equity
The federal government – Canada’s “New Government” – has decided to take a giant step backwards on the question of equal pay for work of equal value. There is nothing new in their pay equity plan. More than thirty years after the ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Improving Maternity and Parental Benefits
Ce document est seulement disponible en anglais. According to NAWL’s vision, every mother should receive income replacement and material support during the first years of caring for a child. Bearing and raising children should not impoverish women, as is now the case. ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Assisted Human Reproduction Act Update
The NAWL Reproductive Technologies Working Group will be meeting in Montreal in early June 2007 to formulate NAWL’s position on the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which is due for review, likely after the next election. The Act reflects Canada’s position on an ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Mothering in Law: Defending Women’s Rights in 2007
This May, NAWL, in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, will be hosting Mothering In Law, its biennial national conference. The Conference will take place on Friday, May 11 and Saturday May 12 — Mother’s Day weekend. The conference will provide an ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
On Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation
On November 7, 2006, lawyer and women’s rights activist Chantal Tie represented NAWL at the Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO) hearings on Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation. Here are excerpts of her testimony. “Trafficking is both a ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Braving the Backlash From the Hill
The current Conservative government of Canada insists that all women have full equality in our country, but as women we know this simply is not the case. With the 40% cut to Status of Women Canada, closure of 12 offices, abolition of ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
The Broken Promises of Prime Minister Harper
At the end of the January 2006 election campaign, Stephen Harper promised that: “Yes, I’m ready to support women’s human rights and I agree that Canada has more to do to meet its international obligations to women’s equality. If elected, I will ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Campus Cocktails with NAWL
Over the past four months, NAWL’s Campus Cocktails: Braving the Anti-Feminist Backlash in 2006–2007 tour visited 10 university campuses throughout the country to hear from young women about feminist advocacy in Canada, and to share with women NAWL’s past, present and future. ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Building for NAWL’s Future: Staying Alive in 2007
NAWL has launched its Staying Alive campaign in response to changes in the mandate of the Status of Women Canada’s Women’s Program, which make most of NAWL’s work ineligible for ongoing funding. In order to continue our essential work for Canadian women, ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Childcare Benefits
Child care is of particular importance for Canadian women as almost three quarters of women with young children combine paid work with motherhood; child care, therefore, is what allows women equal access to the workforce. Under Prime Minister Harper’s child care system, ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
Challenging the Nuclear Family, Protecting Lesbian Mothers: A Legal Catch-22
Despite the enormous increase in the number of lesbians choosing to parent, as well as the numerous legal victories they have achieved in recent years, lesbian mothers remain legally vulnerable. Non-biological mothers in particular are subject to the whim of both biological ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
The Protection of Family Assets in Quebec
This document is only available in French. Les ententes «prénuptiales» deviennent de plus en plus populaires en Amérique du Nord. Ces contrats privés permettent aux parties de mettre de côté les dispositions égalitaires des lois sur le droit de la famille. Elles ...
28 May 2007
May 28, 2007
In Defense of the Court Challenges Program
This document is only available in French. Le 11 décembre 2006, l’ANFD présentait un exposé verbal et un mémoire devant le Comité permanent du patrimoine canadien sur l’impact de l’annulation du financement du Programme de contestation judiciaire du Canada (PCJ) annoncée le ...
1 April 2007
April 1, 2007
Volume 25, No. 1, Spring 2007 / Volume 25, No. 1, Printemps 2007
Volume 25, No. 1, Spring 2007 Volume 25, No. 1, Printemps 2007 Nothing ...
11 December 2006
December 11, 2006
The Abolition of the Court Challenges Program
Presentation on the abolition of the Court Challenges Program to the 39th Parliament,1st Session, Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO). For the full transcript visit the Edited Evidence website of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. Prof. Margaret ...
15 October 2006
October 15, 2006
Abortion and Reproductive Rights
Women’s reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, are increasingly under attack in North America. In 2006, the South Dakota Legislature voted a law that would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save ...
1 February 2006
February 1, 2006
Bonnie: We’ll Miss You!
After nine years as Executive Director of NAWL, Bonnie Diamond will be retiring on February 1, 2006. Her departure is a great loss. Members, staff and volunteers at NAWL can confirm that from the moment she was hired and throughout the years ...
