Other Conventions and UN Bodies

Tired of Minimal Accountability to Women's Rights and Gender Equality? Want results from your government and the United Nations?

The Time to Act is NOW! The Canadian Committee on Women and the UN Reform is an initiative of Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD), Association of Women in Development (AWID), the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), Riverdale Immigrant Women's Centre (RIWC) and Toronto Women's Call to Action (TWCA). We are launching a campaign in Canada for a new women's agency at the UN.The Time to Act is NOW!

A New Women’s Agency at the United Nations

United Nations Rapporteur Decries "Assault on the Poor"

In a public address at George Washington University on Monday, October 19th, Miloon Kothari, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, expressed grave concern about what he called 'a systematic neglect of women's right to housing' in Canada and the United States.

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Women and the UN Disabilities Convention

Currently underway at the United Nations is the Sixth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (1 to 12 August 2005)

Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on Canada's Fourth and Fifth Reports

Read the Concluding Observations here

Tue, 23 May 2006

UN COMMITTEE CRITICIZES CANADA FOR PERSISTENT POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF WEALTH: Notes Discriminatory Impact on Women

May 23, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thu, 20 Apr 2006

Canada Must Re-Invest in Women, Groups tell UN in Geneva

Ottawa- Today in Geneva, women’s organizations and other social justice groups from Canada will report on Canada’s disappointing performance under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) and the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) is submitting a report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that demonstrates how past federal budgets have starved many crucial social programs between 1995 and 1998.

Implement the UN Human Rights Committee's Recommendations

(Ottawa) Canadian human rights organizations called on the federal government today to immediately implement the recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The recommendations were issued by the Committee at the close of its session in Geneva, during which it reviewed Canada’s 5th periodic report on its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

November 3, 2005

Fri, 11 Mar 2005

PRESS RELEASE: UN Human Rights Committee Blasts Canada: Women Call for Action

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 3, 2005.

(Ottawa) Discrimination against Aboriginal women and women prisoners, and negative impacts on women caused by cuts to social assistance and social programmes, drew severe criticism from the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which just completed its 5th review of Canada's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.