Who We Are
The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) is a dynamic coalition of over 75 Canadian women’s equality-seeking and related organizations.1
FAFIA’s mandate is to further women’s equality in Canada through domestic implementation of its’ international human rights commitments.
FAFIA’s goals are to:
- make links between international instruments and agreements and domestic policy-making;
- provide education and information regarding Canada’s human rights obligations and compliance with them to Canadian women’s organizations, women and other members of the public
- support the capacity of women’s organizations to work at the international level; and
- hold Canadian governments accountable to the commitments to women that they have made under international human rights treaties and agreements, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA).
FAFIA’s Recent Publications are:
- “Canada’s Commitment to Equality: A Gender Analysis of the Last
Ten Federal Budgets (1995 – 2004)”. 2005. - “Commitments Abroad, Inequalities at Home: The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): What it is and why it matters” 2004.
- “A Decade of Going Backwards: Canada in the Post-Beijing Era. A Response to the UN Questionnaire on Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly (2000)”. 2004
FAFIA has produced Fact Sheets on: “What is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of discrimination Against Women”, “Women in Parliament”, “Women Living in Poverty”, “Violence Against Women”, “Inequality in Employment”
FAFIA provides organizations and individuals with:
- opportunities to connect and strategize;
- relevant updates and training; and
- opportunities to participate in successful campaigns to further women’s equality in Canada.
1 A number of committed individuals also participate in the coalition.
