16 February 2003
February 16, 2003
CEDAW Review
Dear Friends, Canadian women’s organizations set the agenda for the review by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women of Canada’s 5th report. The national report, prepared by the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), and the B.C. ...
1 January 2003
January 1, 2003
Volume 22, No. 1, Winter 2003 / Volume 22, No. 1, Hiver 2003
Volume 22, No. 1, Winter 2003 Volume 22, No. 1, Hiver 2003 Nothing ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Claire L’Heureux-Dubé Fund for Social Justice
Madame Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has been a critical leader in the development of equality jurisprudence in Canada and internationally and a tireless advocate of social justice for all Canadians. To mark her retirement from the Supreme Court of Canada, to celebrate her ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Reinventing Globalization and the Power of Positive Thinking
If there was one message that came strongly out of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, it is that feminists worldwide need to start putting forth concrete and implementable alternatives to the current neo-liberal globalization model. While ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Where is the Government Going on Custody and Access?
In the September 30th Throne Speech, the Chrétien government announced that the Divorce Act would be amended to better promote the best interest of the child, unified family courts would be expanded, and mediation and counselling would be encouraged in lieu of ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Book Review: Susan B. Boyd – Child Custody, Law, And Women’s Work
Book Review: Susan B. Boyd – Child Custody, Law, And Women’s Work (Oxford University Press, 2002) Child Custody, Law, and Women’s Work is an important book: for legislative policy makers, for judges and lawyers, and for women and men who want to ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Pay Equity: Required Changes In Federal Jurisdictions
NAWL’s Working Group on Pay Equity (members include Louise Aucoin, Claude Bernier, Andrée Côté and Sheila Gibb) recently submitted a brief to the federal Pay Equity Task Force. The Honourable Anne McLellan (then Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada) and ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
CAEFS Human Rights Consultation
On October 3 and 4, 2002, NAWL representatives participated in a two-day consultation coordinated by the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS). A number of national equality seeking women’s organizations were in attendance, as were other organizations that had previously expressed ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
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 ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
First Nations Governance Act: Same Old Indian Agent Mentality
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 ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Civil Union and the New Filiation Rules in Quebec: from Ignorance to the Legal Recognition of the Homoparental Family
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 ...
16 October 2002
October 16, 2002
Finding Answers: The Kimberly Rogers Inquest
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 ...
1 August 2002
August 1, 2002
Volume 21, No. 3, Fall 2002 / Volume 21, No. 3, Automne 2002
Volume 21, No. 3, Fall 2002 Volume 21, No. 3, Automne 2002 Nothing ...
16 July 2002
July 16, 2002
Meet the Board
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 ...
16 July 2002
July 16, 2002
National Association of Women and the Law Conference 2002 Resolutions
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 ...
16 July 2002
July 16, 2002
Hats Off to Claire L’Heureux-Dubé
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 ...
16 July 2002
July 16, 2002
“Bridging Visions” of Law and Art for Women, the Family and the State
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 ...
16 July 2002
July 16, 2002
Confidential Records and Sexual Assault Complainants post-Mills: Still Vulnerable?
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 ...
16 July 2002
July 16, 2002
World Conference Against Racism: New Obligations to Remedy Racism
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 ...
16 July 2002
July 16, 2002
Test-Case Litigation, Social and Economic Rights, and the American Convention on Human Rights: What Difference can it Make?
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 ...
