The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) commends the Government of Canada’s announcement of critical steps to strengthen gun control measures and ...

Advocates implore all federal party leaders to commit to uphold and enforce new laws to prevent injury and killing of women and children by ...

WHO WE ARE: The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) is an incorporated not-for-profit feminist organization that works to achieve substantive equality ...

The prevalence of accusations of parental alienation makes it likely that a new tort of family violence would be used to revictimize survivors of ...

The National Association of Women and the LAW (NAWL) is pleased to announce that it has received funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada ...

The federal government has announced it will legislate to require charities providing reproductive health services to clearly reveal to their clients whether they offer ...

NAWL submitted a brief to the Quebec’s National Assembly Committee on Institutions on Bill 73, An Act to counter the non-consensual sharing of intimate ...

Federal government’s failure to act is putting victims of domestic abuse at further risk by punishing disclosures of family violence Anishinaabe Territory/OTTAWA, October 30, ...

The Senate is currently considering Bill C-50, a bill that aims to facilitate the shift towards a carbon-neutral economy and to support workers in ...

The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) has submitted a brief to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women for its ...

National feminist law reform organization recognized for its work advocating for better protections for victims of domestic violence in gun control legislation Anishinaabe Territory/OTTAWA, ...

The National Association of Women and the Law is advocating for a ban on parental alienation accusations in family courts. Suzanne Zaccour, Director of ...

New funding for free contraception, creation of more $10-a-day child care spaces and investment in gun control buyback program Anishinaabe Territory/OTTAWA, April 16, 2024 ...

The National Association of Women and the Law is excited to announce the publication of the 2024 edition of “A Woman’s Guide to Money, ...

We are looking for a creative bilingual (English/French) content creator to create original and engaging content for NAWL’s social media accounts and newsletter. The ...

Congratulations to the winners of our 50th-anniversary essay contest: The winning submission was from Tess Moffat from the University of Ottawa for her essay, ...

“Parental alienation” is a concept used in parenting time disputes to criticize one parent, often the mother, when the other parent, often the father, ...

On January 31st, 2024, NAWL submitted a brief to the Committee on Labour and the Economy of the National Assembly of Quebec concerning Bill ...

Yesterday, the Court of Appeal of Quebec rendered its decision on the Act respecting the laicity of the State, commonly known as Bill 21. ...

Today, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) announced it will present its inaugural Shirley Greenberg Award for outstanding leadership in feminist ...