The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) provided a thematic briefing to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on March 28, 2012 in Washington D.C. on the disappearances and murders of …

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Holds Hearing on Disappearances and Murders of Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia March 27, 2012 For immediate release (Ottawa) The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International …

In January, FAFIA submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on the issue of the ‘Disappearances and Murders of Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada’. The link to the full document is below. ‘Disappearances …

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women confirmed on December 16, 2011 that it has initiated an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada under Article 8 of the Optional Protocol to …

World trade and per capita income grew faster in the first decade of the XXI century than the decade before, but progress against poverty slowed down. A gap widened, due to the unequal distribution of the benefits of prosperity. Now …

West Coast LEAF has published the 2011 CEDAW Report Card. The Report Card is released every year on the anniversary of the 1929 Persons Day victory that established many women as “persons” under the law and eligible for appointment to …