June 29 2015 – The Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (LSC), a national coalition of advocacy groups, has multiple concerns with the RCMP “Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: 2015 Update to the RCMP’s 2014 Operational Overview.
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JOINT STATEMENT: Canadian Groups Call for a National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Womenpost
Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, the Native Women’s Association of Canada, BC CEDAW Group, Feminist Alliance for International Action, and International Women’s Rights Project call on the federal government to immediately adopt and implement TRC recommendation to conduct public inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.
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Notice of Meeting: FAFIA’s Annual General Meeting!post
Your organization/agency’s attendance at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 15 at 3:00pm EDT is requested. The meeting will take place via teleconference. Please RSVP as soon as possible. Please let us know by June 1st if you would like to nominate someone (or yourself) to FAFIA’s Steering Committee. Thank you for confirming your […]
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Petition to Support Muslim Women’s Rightspost
FEMINIST LEADERS CONDEMN THE ATTACKS ON THE RIGHTS OF MUSLIM WOMEN
Initiated by FAFIA – the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International ActionWe, the undersigned representatives of feminist organizations and individual feminists, wish to express our support for Zunera Ishaq and Rania El-Alloul and condemn the attacks on their human rights as guaranteed under Canadian and international law.
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CEDAW Committee Report Releasedpost
Canada has committed a “grave violation” of the rights of Aboriginal women by failing to promptly and thoroughly investigate the high levels of violence they suffer, including disappearances and murders.
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IACHR Report Releasedpost
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a report on January 12, 2015 on its investigation into the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in British Columbia. The IACHR finds Canada is obligated under international human rights law to prevent the violence by taking measures to deal with poverty, access to housing and employment, and disproportionate criminalization.
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New Report on Canada’s Compliance with Beijing Platformpost
A new report from a network of over 30 NGOs, Trade Unions and Experts, Progress on Women’s Rights: Missing in Action, prepared for Canada’s 20-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, clearly shows that progress has stalled in critical areas, including violence against women and girls, the economy, and women’s leadership and decision making.
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Notice of Special General Meetingpost
FAFIA-AFAI will hold a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 from 1-2:00 pm EDT
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Sharon McIvor Talks Equality for Aboriginal Womenpost
In “Constitute!”, Sharon McIvor talks about the challenges experienced by Aboriginal women in Canada in trying to achieve
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Parliamentary Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenouspost
The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) is dismayed by the failure of the Parliamentary Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women to recommend a national inquiry into the situation of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
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Anti-poverty and human rights groups shoulder-to-shoulder with “Idle No More”post
Aboriginal peoples disproportionately experience poverty, inadequate housing and homelessness, hunger and ill health.
Click here to view the op ed, written by Leilani Farha, Laurel Rothman, Rita Morbia, Shelagh Day and John Fraser.