The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Actions (FAFIA) and Dr. Pamela Palmater filed briefs on May 6 with the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples (APPA) that is studying Bill S-3 and sex discrimination in the Indian Act. These briefs provide follow-up information to the testimony of Sharon McIvor, Dr. Pamela Palmater, and Shelagh Day at […]
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FAFIA REPORT: THE TOXIC CULTURE OF MISOGYNY, RACISM, AND VIOLENCE IN THE RCMPpost
Today, the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) issued a new report on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police entitled, “The Toxic Culture of the RCMP: Misogyny, Racism, and Violence against Women in Canada’s National Police Force.” Read our press release here. Our report, researched and written by Shivangi Misra, Ashley Major, Dr. Pamela Palmater, […]
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CERD ADOPTS LETTER IN REPONSE TO IMMINENT THREAT TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND TERRITORIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIApost
In November 2021, as part of a coalition of concerned advocates, FAFIA joined Human Right experts in submitting a Request for Early Warnings and Urgent Action Procedures to The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in relation to the imminent threat to Indigenous peoples and territories in British Columbia, Canada. You can read […]
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CSW66 Parallel Event – Indigenous Women Land Defenders: State Violence and Forced Removalspost
The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) and Justice for Girls (JFG) hosted a panel discussion on Indigenous women land defenders and the efforts of these Indigenous women to protect Indigenous rights and Indigenous territories from state violence, dispossession, and environmental degradation. Panelists: Dr. Pamela Palmater, Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University & […]
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FAFIA Presents at the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples on March 28, 2022post
FAFIA Board Members Sharon McIvor and Shelagh Day spoke to the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples (APPA Committee) on Monday, March 28th at 2 ET. The APPA Committee convened to review the Government’s Report to Parliament on Bill S-3, which was tabled in December 2020. Watch the APPA Committee Meeting here:
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LETTER TO FEDERAL MINISTER FREELAND ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BILL S-3post
As a member of the Indian Act Sex Discrimination Working Group, the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action has collaboratively sent a letter to the Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, urgently requesting that Budget 2022 include adequate funds to ensure that by 2025 all First Nations women and their descendants who became eligible for status […]
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JOINT SUBMISSION TO THE EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (2022)post
In collaboration with Justice for Girls and Just Planet, the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) has made a joint submission to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) in response to a call for proposals on “The Militarization of Indigenous Lands: A HumanRights Focus.” In this submission, we urge EMRIP […]
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Press Release: UBCIC, FAFIA, and Dr. Palmater Release Comments on Draft General Recommendation No. 39 on the Rights of Indigenous Women and Girlspost
Click here for a PDF version of this press release.Click here to read the full submission. UBCIC, FAFIA, and Dr. Palmater Release Comments on Draft General Recommendation No. 39 on the Rights of Indigenous Women and Girls For immediate release1 February 2022 (Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C. – January 31, 2022) […]
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A Feminist Perspective on the Financialization of Housing: Housing as Human Right, not a Commoditypost
On December 8th, 2021 The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) organized a webinar on the financialization of housing in collaboration with the Shift, the National Right to Housing Network, the National Women’s Housing and Homelessness Network and The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. If you missed out or couldn’t attend some portions, you […]
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News release: Canadian Government Challenged to Stop Defying United Nations Decision on Oil and Gas Pipeline Constructionpost
Click here for the PDF version Canadian Government Challenged to Stop Defying United Nations Decision on Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction For immediate release 29 November 2021 An urgent request to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to intervene in recent human rights violations against Indigenous peoples in BC has been […]
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FAFIA Condemns the Deployment of the RCMP in the Wet’suwet’en Territorypost
The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) condemns the escalation of violence, arrests and detainment of Indigenous peoples, social justice activists, land defenders, legal observers, and the people of the unceded, un-surrendered Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan territories by the militarized Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). We are dismayed that during a state of emergency and […]
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The RCMP: Its Culture and Future – FAFIA Webinarpost
On September 17, 2021 FAFIA organized an expert panel discussion on The RCMP: Its Culture and Future. This event’s success is in large part thanks to the 300+ folks who registered, tuned in, engaged in the chat, and learned about women and policing in Canada from experts. If you missed out, you can find the recorded video of […]