1 April 2005
April 1, 2005
We are pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the NAWL Charitable Trust 17th Essay Competition.
First prize winner is Kathy Grant for her paper entitled “A New Constitutional Home for Substantive Justice for Women: Deconstructing Firewalls and Stoking the Hearth of Section 7 of the Charter”.
Honourable mention goes to Karen Mirsky for “Trafficking and the Sex Work Debate: Agency as a Human Rights Model”.
We thank all those who submitted their essays this year. Winning essay papers may be obtained from the NAWL national office.

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