NAWL submitted a brief on Bill C-5—An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code—to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
36 feminist and equality-seeking organizations endorsed the brief, including:
- Accessibility for All
- Action Ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes
- Amnesty International Canada
- AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre
- Avalon Sexual Assault Centre
- Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic
- BC Society of Transition Houses
- Campaign 2000
- Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity
- Canadian Council of Muslim Women
- Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
- Canadian Women’s Foundation
- Colchester Sexual Assault Centre
- DisAbled Women’s Network Canada
- Egale Canada
- Ending Violence Association of Canada
- Feminist Alliance for International Action
- International Women’s Rights Project
- Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak — Women of the Métis Nation
- Luke’s Place Support and Resource Centre for Women and Children
- Metropolitan Action Committee Violence Against Women and Children
- National Congress of Black Women Foundation
- Native Women’s Association of Canada
- Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses
- PEI Family Violence Prevention Services Inc
- PEI Rape and Sexual Assault Centre
- Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale
- Rise Women’s Legal Centre
- Sexual Violence New Brunswick
- South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
- WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre
- West Coast LEAF
- Women’s Centre for Social Justice, o/a WomenattheCentrE
- Women’s Legal and Education Action Fund
- Women’s Shelters Canada
- YWCA Canada