Resources

CEDAW, International Conventions and UN Bodies

Tue, 05 Jan 2010

No Action: No Progress

Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action

Response to

Canada’s Follow-Up Report

to the

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

January 2010

Read the Government of Canada's official follow-up submission to the CEDAW Committee at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/followup.htm

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Gender Budgeting and Gender Based Analysis

Tue, 12 May 2009

The Auditor General Reports on Gender-Based Analysis

In April 2008, the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women recommended, in its ninth report, that the Auditor General's Office examine the implementation of gender-based analysis in the federal government.

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Sun, 01 Mar 2009

Federal Budget 2009:As the rich get richer, women are still left in the cold

Budget 2009 was promised as an ‘economic recovery’ and ‘stimulus’ budget, and a plan to ensure that those who are most economically vulnerable would get support during a period of recession.

Women had every reason to hope they would be seen as equally able to stimulate the economy and would enjoy protections too, as women make up over half the population in Canada and many women are among the most economically vulnerable.

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Issue Topics

Wed, 20 May 2009

The Fight for a Publicly-Funded Child Care System in Canada

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) recently released its Spring 2009 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves entitled Beyond Child's Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada. This report takes a broad, comprehensive view of child care and early childhood education and examines it though a variety of different lenses to offer readers a number of points of entry into this nuanced and multifaceted topic.

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Thu, 24 Jul 2008

What Do We Mean by "Feminization of Poverty"?

This ‘one pager’ by the International Poverty Centre (IPC) examines the concept of the ‘feminization of poverty’ and the various ways in which it can be defined. IPC proposes a definition that is in line with many recent studies in the field: the feminization of poverty is a change in poverty levels that is biased against women or female-headed households. More specifically, it is an increase in the difference in poverty levels between women and men, or between households headed by females on the one hand, and those headed my males or couples on the other.

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