NAWL signed the Open Letter to Minister Jean-Yves Duclos prepared by Canada Without Poverty Campaign 2000 and Citizens for Public Justice to strengthen Bill C-87, An Act respecting the reduction of poverty. The Honourable Minister Jean-Yves Duclos Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 February 1, 2019 Open…
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Working Together for Women on Parliament Hill
The Coalition for Women’s Equality (CWE) is made up of autonomous equality seeking women’s organizations that came together before the last election to advocate for stable and effective federal mechanisms to achieve women’s equality. Coalition Members include the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), Womenspace, the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), the…
How Fair is the MBM to Women?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. On May 27, 2003, Human Resources Development Canada released its new approach to measuring low income, the so-called Market Basket Measure (MBM). This method calculates the cost of food, clothing, shelter and other essentials deemed necessary for a family of four, and adjusts the amount for different cities.…
Majority Embraces Stereotype of Poor
There are good news elements in the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Gosselin v. Québec (Attorney General). Justice Arbour has written an important and fresh decision on section 7, finding that it creates a positive obligation on governments to deal with economic deprivation. In addition, the majority on the discrimination issue is a slim…
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
ADVERTISEMENT Volume 14:1: Women and Poverty: The Challenge of Social and Economic Rights Feminist activists and scholars consistently argued that equality rights guarantees would be of little value to women unless they were read as a source of substantive governmental obligation to address the real life circumstances of women’s lives. The latest volume of the…
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 law. As well, this project is intended to increase the capacity of legal…
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 before her body was found. Many see Kim Roger’s death as the result…
Consultation Of Women Anti-Poverty Activists
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. In March, in the course of preparing the factum on the Gosselin case, NAWL consulted with women anti-poverty activists. Meetings were held in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montréal and Indian Harbour (Nova Scotia). Over forty women with expertise about living in poverty shared their views on the Gosselin case and…
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 the issue. Gosselin v. The Attorney General of Québec (27418) is scheduled to…
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 group, to underscore the specific ways in which the challenged provision put young…
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 the 1980’s that provided drastically reduced benefits (170$ a month) for persons under…
Budget 2000: Entering a New Millennium ?
In the fall of 1999 one might have thought that fixing the focus of the 2000 budget would be a battle between advocates pushing for increased investment in Canada’s social programs on one side, and business lobbyists and high?income earners pushing for tax cuts on the other side. But the terrain had dramatically narrowed by…
Submission to the International Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Women and the Social Deficit
Mémoire de l’ANFD au Comité international sur les droits sociaux, économiques et culturels : Les femmes et le déficit social This presentation seeks to bring to the attention of the Committee the impact on Canadian women of Canada’s failure to realise the social economic rights guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural…
Canadian Women and the Social Deficit: A Presentation to the International Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the Occasion of the Consideration of Canada’s Third Report on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The NAWL presentation to the United Nations seeks to bring to the attention of the International Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the impact on Canadian women of Canada’s failure to realize the social and economic rights guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.…
Pre-Budget Consultations: 1999 Federal Budget: Tackling the Social Deficit – Securing Gender Equality
NAWL’s brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (presented to the Committee in August 1998) urges the Government to concentrate on reducing the country’s alarming social deficit which has very specific negative effects on women, and as such exacerbates the “equality deficit” for women. NAWL recommends changes to fiscal policy in five…
The Federal Social Security Reform, Submission to the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development
NAWL’s Submission focused on trends for women in employment related issues in the Unemployment Insurance Act, and makes recommendations for the reform of social assistance.…
Women’s Work is Never … Done, Paid, Valued, or … Finished
Women and Tax Policy
This document was a background paper for the NAWL conference on the Feminization of Poverty.…
