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OTTAWA- (27 October, 2008)-Representatives from the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) a pan-Canadian alliance of 70 women’s equality seeking groups, watched as the UN CEDAW Committee in Geneva asked hard questions of the Canadian government regarding Canada’s failure to live up to the equality guarantees to women contained in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination (CEDAW) against Women ratified by Canada in 1981. For Immediate Release
October 27th, 2008

Canada Grilled by United Nations’ CEDAW Committee in Geneva

During the 2006 federal election campaign, FAFIA issued a pledge to all federal party leaders asking them to support women’s human rights by upholding the UN Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and implementing CEDAW recommendations.

All parties signed the pledges and asserted their commitment to women’s equality.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
CBC News

Canada ranks 20th out of 146 countries in a survey of the best and worst places to live for mothers and children, according to U.S.-based humanitarian organization Save the Children.

The group issued its ninth annual State of the World's Mothers report Tuesday, ranking countries according to mothers' and children's health, education and economic status.

Times & Transcript (Moncton)
Thu 17 Apr 2008
Page: D6
Ginette Petitpas-Taylor Woman's view

Sharon McIvor of British Columbia is carrying a torch lit many years ago by Aboriginal women of Tobique -- giant killers all. Early next month, Sharon will be in Tobique and will meet some of those women.

Canada took notice that hot summer of 1979 when the women of Tobique organized to obtain Indian rights for Indian women. The week-long walk by Tobique women and children from Oka to Ottawa attracted lots of
attention.

Investment banker's study says making it easier for women to enter paid workforce would solve many difficult social problems

Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun
Friday, March 21, 2008

There may be a magic bullet for solving some of our society's most difficult problems, such as affordable housing, immigration, productivity declines, an aging workforce or the near-crippling demands on the pension system.

Make it easier for women to get into the paid workforce.

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