18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Women’s Poverty, Women’s Equality: Supreme Court to Rule on one Woman’s Claim to Social and Economic Rights
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. The Supreme Court of Canada will soon be hearing a precedent-setting case about the right to adequate social assistance benefits. NAWL was granted leave to intervene in the case, to present a feminist analysis of ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
In Whose Best Interests?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Both historically and currently, women have been and remain the primary caregivers of children in most families in Canada. Certainly, fathers share more of the responsibility than they did in the past, but in 52% ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Lessons Learned from Family Law — The Proposed Presumption in Favour of Shared Parenting
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Part of the fallout from the passage of the Child Support Guidelines in 1997 was a political compromise, engineered by Senator Anne Cools, which required a study to be conducted on custody and access. It ...
15 June 2001
June 15, 2001
NAWL Brief to the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Family Law Committee on Custody, Access and Child
Mémoire de l’ANFD au Comité fédéral, provincial et territorial sur le droit de la famille, sur la garde, le droit de visite et les pensions alimentaires pour enfants The Divorce Act must begin with a preamble, supported by the wording within the ...
1 June 2001
June 1, 2001
Brief to the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Family Law Committee on Custody, Access and Child Support
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23 May 2001
May 23, 2001
NAWL Brief to the Supreme Court of Canada in Gosselin v. Québec (Attorney General)
Mémoire de l’ANFD à la Cour suprême dans l’affaire Gosselin c. Québec NAWL wishes to highlight aspects of the record that reveal the impact of the challenged section of the Social Aid Regulation on young women and men in the 18-30 age ...
28 April 2001
April 28, 2001
Brief on the Proposed Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-11)
Brief on the Proposed Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-11) Mémoire concernant le Projet de loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés In 2001, the government introduced new legislation on immigration and refugee protection. NAWL proposed a series of recommendations ...
23 April 2001
April 23, 2001
NAWL Brief on the Proposed Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-11) to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration
Although we recognize that a number of important reforms are being introduced with Bill C-11, we are deeply concerned about the bill’s lack of progress for immigrant and refugee women. Our brief will discuss some of the important avenues of reform, from ...
24 March 2001
March 24, 2001
Welfare Rights Are Women’s Rights, Consultation Report
In the Fall of 2000, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) obtained intervener status before the Supreme Court in the Gosselin v. Québec (Attorney General) case. The Gosselin case is about a welfare regulation in force in Québec in ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Twelve Good Reasons to Oppose Granting Criminal Immunity to Police
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. I attended a round table hosted by the Department of Justice on October 5, 2000 on the government’s White Paper on Criminal Liability and Law Enforcement, along with a number of other academics and legal ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Rape Shield Provisions Upheld
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the rape shield provisions of the Criminal Code (s. 276, 276.1and 276.2) in R. v. Darrach, 2000 SCC 46, released October 12. Except in one respect, the decision does ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Update on the Pamela Jean George Case
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. In the early morning hours of April 17, 1995, on the outskirts of Regina, Saskatchewan, Pamela Jean George was beaten to death by two young white men. One of the two men convicted of killing ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
The Women’s Economic Equality Project
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. In conjunction with the United States Centre on Economic and Social Rights and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (Geneva), NAWL is a partner in the newly established Women’s Economic Equality Project. The goals ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
On Losing Lesbian Rights
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. While the Fourth World Conference of Women held in Beijing in 1995 fell short of formally recognising the rights of lesbians and gay men, many United Nations bodies and programs – such as the UN ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Custody and Access Project in Ontario
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Since September 2000, representatives from seven Ontario organizations have been meeting to explore ways of working together to more effectively respond to the needs of women and children involved in custody and access issues. The ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Bringing Beijing + 5 Home to Canada: What Was the Beijing + 5 Process About?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Women in Canada and around the world worked hard to prepare for the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing China. For many women in Canada, the Conference and parallel NGO forum sparked ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Political Parity and the Charter of Rights
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Notes prepared for the “Stages of Citizenship ” Conference, University of Ottawa, November 2-3, 2000 Women’s underrepresentation in politics is a well-known fact. It is a historical phenomenon, which remains characteristic of all modern democratic ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Students’ Work with NAWL: Trans. What?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. There have been a number of important test cases recently decided in Canada at the tribunal level concerning transgender human rights, including Ferris v. Office and Technical Employees Union, Local 15, [1999] B.C.H.R.T.D. No. 55; ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
The Year 2000 Women’s March – the TFFCPO was there!
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Thirty thousand women marched on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill on October 15, 2000, demanding immediate action from the feds to end poverty and violence against women. Among them was a contingent of 240 French-Ontarian women marching ...
2 February 2001
February 2, 2001
Women’s Election Website
Women’s Election Website During the recent federal election NAWL helped operate a women’s bilingual website,”Women’s Election – 2000 reasons to vote”. This site was produced by a coalition of equality seeking women and women’s organizations in partnership with Womenspace and the National ...
