[CAH] Action for Women's Equality and Human Rights

[Claudia Jahn - CAH]

Action for Women's Equality and Human Rights

"A Call to Equality in Governance"

Public Launch 

Card Writing Campaign

1:15 PM

Friday, December 8, 2006

Lord Nelson Hotel

Speakers, Presentations and Performances.

Including the Raging Grannies and The Radical Feminists, Street Theatre.

On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Canada will mark the
25th anniversary of its ratification of the UN Convention on the
Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Instead of celebrating this historical milestone, women in Canada are
mobilizing to ensure that governments honour and respect their
international and domestic human rights commitments. 

In the last year, the federal government abolished the funding for the
national child care program, decided not to adopt an improved federal
pay equity law, eliminated all funds for the Court Challenges Program,
removed the goal of equality from the mandate of the Women's Program at
Status of Women Canada, prohibited the use of federal funds to engage in
advocacy at any level of government, lobbying and most research and are
now closing most regional and provincial Women's Program offices by the
end of this fiscal year (March 31st, 2007). 

Other policy decisions have resulted in cuts to literacy programs, a
lack of support for women and men who are homeless, the refusal to
respect the Kyoto Protocol, the decisions to renege on the Kelowna
Accord as well as Canada's obstruction of the adoption of the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 

We ..Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, Avalon Sexual
Assault Centre, Canadian Labour Congress, CRIAW - Nova Scotia, Community
Advocates Network, Dalhousie Women's Centre, Feminists for Just and
Equitable Public Policy (FemJEPP,) Nova Scotia Federation of Labour,
Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Saint Mary's
Women's Centre, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, The
Women Are Angry Campaign,Transition House Association of Nova Scotia
(THANS,) Women's Centre Connect 

	...invite you, your family, friends and colleagues to join us
this Friday. 

Together we can make a difference!

 

Contact: Stephanie Hunter, FemJEPP Coordinator

hunter.group at ns.sympatico.ca or (902) 423-8025 

 
___________________________________________
 
"No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering"
~Emily Murphy~
 


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