In response to the 2018 Canada Summer Jobs Program, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights (Action Canada) and the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) shared an open letter supporting changes made to the Program. A copy of the open letter can be found here. The framework for the 2019 Canada Summer…
Tag: Women’s Equality Rights
An Open Letter Supporting Recent Changes to the Canada Summer Jobs Program
The undersigned organizations wholeheartedly support the recent changes made to the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program, which seek to secure greater fulfillment of human rights in accordance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We call on all political parties in Canada to do the same. *** Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Ms. May, Ms.…
Report on the NAWL Pan-Canadian Workshop on Improving Maternity and Parental Benefits outside Québec
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Arbitration, Religion and Family Law: Private Justice on the Backs of Women
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Pre-Budget Consultations: 2005 Federal Budget
In NAWL’s Brief to the Finance Committee on the 2005 Federal Budget (as a member of the Coalition for Women’s Equality), we argued that the federal government has sufficient resources to implement a National Child Care Program (see pages 17 and 18).[pdf-embedder url=”https://nawl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2004/12/Pub_Brief_Finance04_en.pdf” title=”Pre-Budget Consultations: 2005 Federal Budget”]…
Ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights: The Stakes for Women
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The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women
A summary of a presentation from NAWL’s 14th Biennial Conference Canada has been a leader in women’s human rights in the international human rights arena for several years. Indeed, Canada backed the campaign at the 1993 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights that led to the recognition that women’s rights are an inalienable, integral…
Brief to the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Family Law Committee on Custody, Access and Child Support
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NAWL Shares Communications Skills with Women in China
The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), in partnership with the Association of Canadian Community Colleges, Queen’s University and the University of Alberta is working on the Canada/China Women’s Law Project. This project is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to promote women’s rights in China through improved awareness and implementation…
Brief to the Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel
This brief was the basis of a NAWL presentation to the Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel in October 1999 in Vancouver. The brief addresses issues of procedures, such as speedier complaint processing and guaranteed access to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, as well as substantive changes to the Act. Drawing on a series of…
Supporting Families, Supporting Gender Equality: Improving Canada’s Tax and Transfer System
NAWL’s brief submitted to the House of Commons Finance Sub-Committee on Tax-Fairness for Canadian Families. NAWL finds unfortunate the debate over the tax fairness to families with a male breadwinner and female full-time caregiver. These issues do not provide a good basis for discussing much needed reforms to the tax and transfer system as it…
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. [pdf-embedder url=”https://nawl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ISBN1895996422.pdf” title=”Canadian Women and the…
Getting a Foot in the Door: Women, Civil Legal Aid and Access to Justice
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Final Report on Court-Related Harassment and Family Law “Justice”: A Review of the Literature & Analysis of Case Law
Prepared by Sandra A. Goundry in association with the Vancouver Association of Women and the Law, this reports provides a useful overview of court-related harassment in the family justice system. The report examines the sources of court-related harassment, provides an analysis of relevant case law and offers recommendations for policy and legislative reform. [pdf-embedder url=”https://nawl.ca/wp-content/uploads/1998/04/ISBN0895996333-TOO-BIG-TO-UPLOAD-compressed.pdf”…
Family Mediation in Canada: Implications for Women’s Equality
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Submission by the National Association of Women and the Law to the CBA Task Force on Racism in the Legal Profession
NAWL’s submission to the Canadian Bar Association on Racism in the Legal Profession Task Force focuses on solutions to the racism that undisputedly permeates the profession. Through personal stories and suggestions for reform, NAWL shows the profound effect of intersection of race and gender on minority women in the profession. [pdf-embedder url=”https://nawl.ca/wp-content/uploads/1997/02/ISBN0895996252.pdf” title=”Submission by the…
Midwifery in Canada
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Bill C-33: An Act Respecting Human Rights in Canada – A Promise Finally Fulfilled
The brief congratulates the government for including sexual orientation in the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act. However, it criticizes the government for allowing a free vote on this issue. [pdf-embedder url=”https://nawl.ca/wp-content/uploads/1996/05/ISBN089599621X.pdf” title=”Bill C-33: An Act Respecting Human Rights in Canada – A Promise Finally Fulfilled”]…
Women and the Canada Health and Social Transfer: Ensuring Gender Equality in Federal Welfare Reform
This brief assesses the implications of the repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan, the attendant loss of national standards, and the resulting need for protection of the social welfare net. It suggests how the CHST might be amended to better reflect and promote women’s equality rights. [pdf-embedder url=”https://nawl.ca/wp-content/uploads/1996/04/ISBN0895996449.pdf” title=”Women and the Canada Health and Social…
NAWL’s Submission on the Pay Equity Act Review, 1996
This brief makes the case for strengthening the existing act and includes a list of specific recommendations as statistics show that Ontario women are still only making 73.5¢ for every dollar that men earn. [pdf-embedder url=”https://nawl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ISBN0895996201.pdf” title=”NAWL’s Submission on the Pay Equity Act Review, 1996″]…
