Progress on Women's Rights: Missing in Action
This report reviews Canada's implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and finds that while progress has been made in access to education, it also highlights the areas where inequality has persisted and worsened - particularly in terms of violence against women, political representation, economic security, access to social services, and the additional barriers to equallity faced by Aboriginal women and girls, racialized women, women with disabilities and women from sexual minorities.
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Showing posts with label Aboriginal women. Show all posts
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News in Brief:
Canada:
Canada:
- What's behind the trend of declining crime rate in Toronto?
Commentary by the Centre's Professor Rosemary Gartner - Stephen Harper is wrong: Crime and sociology are the same thing
Article by Centre graduate Rashmee Singh - Women and girls often exploited in street gangs, says ex-member
Ian McKinney, 24, opens up on the dangers of Winnipeg gang life - Reports contradict PM's view on aboriginal women victims
- Fairness for Victims Act faces major constitutional problem
- Boat crash on Lake Ontario leads to key test of civil forfeiture law
- Robert Latimer case: How Harper's tough agenda ignores individual nature of crime
- Black inmate sues B.C. over alleged KKK beating and "torture" by jail staff
- Are you on the no-fly list? Who knows?
- Audit raises concerns about prisoners' privacy rights
- Library time and book access limited for federal prisoners, advocates say
- Red Devils: A glimpse into Hamilton's oldest outlaw biker gang
- Three-quarters of Americans want cameras in the Supreme Court as one federal judge demonstrates why some of his colleagues don't
- Are police bigoted? Race and police shootings: Are blacks targeted more?
- Should Twitter, Facebook and Google executives be the arbiters of what we see and read?
- San Quentin's museum is captivating
- Tough case to crack: the mystery of Britain's falling crime rate
- Home Secretary launches best use of stop and search scheme
- "Prisons are being reduced to warehouses": Company pulls the plug on contract to educate inmates at High Down
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