17 February 2002
February 17, 2002
The Canadian Gender and Trade Consultation
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. After the World Trade Organization wrapped up its meetings in the heavily patrolled city of Doha, Qatar this past November, Farah Khan, an observer, stated: “Compared with other international gatherings, Doha has been a remarkable ...
17 February 2002
February 17, 2002
Bill C-36: The Anti-terrorism Act
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. At the urging of the United States after September 11th, governments in Europe and North America adopted stringent anti-terrorism measures. Canada responded to the call by passing tough new legislation. Bill C-36, now the Anti-terrorism ...
17 February 2002
February 17, 2002
Rethinking the Budgeting Process: A Call for Renewed Action
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. The Process Leading Up to Budget 2001 NAWL has been involved in the budget-making process for years. Despite preparation and advocacy on our part, each year our submissions appear to have little effect on the ...
17 February 2002
February 17, 2002
Pursuing a Feminist Policy Agenda through Electoral Reform
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Over the past few months NAWL has reviewed the issue of federal electoral reform, and how changes to the current federal system may facilitate a shift in the policy priorities of the Canadian Parliament. NAWL ...
17 February 2002
February 17, 2002
Equality Coalition to Present Agruments in Brockie Case
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. In December 2001, a coalition of 12 equality-seeking groups in Ontario presented arguments in Brillinger v. Brockie, a case before the Ontario Court of Justice. The case was on appeal from the Ontario Board of ...
17 February 2002
February 17, 2002
Poverty is a Human Rights Violation
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Longtime members and supporters of NAWL, Gwen Brodsky and I have launched a new project dedicated to strengthening the rights of the poorest people, to have the right to social and economic security recognized by ...
17 February 2002
February 17, 2002
Métis Women and Aboriginal Self-Governance: Entrenching Inequality Through the Devolution of Discrimination
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Like Inuit, status Indian, and non-status women, many Métis women face extreme and lifelong poverty, labour market discrimination, and tremendous barriers to education, political representation, health resources, and other social programming. Métis women also experience ...
6 December 2001
December 6, 2001
NAWL Brief on the Anti-Terrorism Act to the Senate Special Committee on Bill C-36 / Consulter nos archives par catégorie
Ce mémoire est disponible seulement en anglais. The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) is extremely concerned about the impact of proposed Bill C-36, An Anti-terrorism Act, on the civil and political rights as well as the equality rights of ...
23 October 2001
October 23, 2001
NAWL’s Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance, 2001
Ce mémoire est disponible seulement en anglais. We have one key message for the committee: Good fiscal policy-making must take gender into account. To underline this message, our submission will illustrate some problems with two major budgetary initiatives of recent years: personal ...
18 September 2001
September 18, 2001
The Women’s Economic Equality Project
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Women of all ages experience gender inequality within and outside the home. Women are denied access to basic healthcare, housing, education, and work. Even when they are employed, women’s wages in industrialized countries are only ...
18 September 2001
September 18, 2001
Kim Rogers: Death in the Modern Day Pauper’s Prison
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Kim Rogers, eight months pregnant and serving a sentence of house arrest in Sudbury, Ontario, died in her small apartment on August 9, 2001 during the course of a record-setting heat wave. Two days passed ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Thoughts on the World Conference Against Racism
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. I had the honour of representing NAWL at the UN World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa recently. My memories are a collage of bodyguard-flanked dignitaries, trumpeting elephants, begging ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Some Reflections on an International Experience: A Report from the CHRF International Human Rights Training Program
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Introduction This summer I represented NAWL at the Canadian Human Rights Foundation’s (CHRF) 22nd annual International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, just outside of Montreal. (See the CHRF’s website at http://www.chrf.ca/english/general/files/master_eng.htm) For three ...
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
