June 4, 2010
Ontarians from racialized backgrounds are far more likely to live in poverty, face barriers to finding a job, and receive less pay for work, says a study of Census data by the Canadian Centre for...
Ethnicity and Race, Poverty Research, Women, Manitoba
December 3, 2009
Megaphone magazine has run a feature carrying the voices and stories of some DEWC Power of Women members. Titled "Our Lives, Our Voices: Downtown Eastside women find healing through narrative", seven...
Women, British Columbia
September 14, 2009
A new report from CCPA shows that Canada still has shockingly high rates of women's poverty and that the recession has sidelined government polices to address women’s poverty. Women tend to be among...
Poverty Research, Women, All of Canada
March 30, 2009
http://www.childcareontario.org/ - Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care works for more access to quality child care, for more affordable child care and to improve child care services in Ontario.
Children and Youth, Family, Women, General resources, Ontario
March 30, 2009
A couple of reports have looked at the links between income, women, and childcare in Canada.
Stats Canada just released a report that shows that a sizeable earnings gap exists between Canadian women...
Children and Youth, Family, Women, All of Canada
December 2, 2008
http://www.clvu.org/ - City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community...
Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, General resources, United States
October 27, 2008
Twenty-five years ago, Canada was among the first countries to sign the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) treaty. The Canadian Feminist...
Women, All of Canada, International
October 5, 2008
http://www.nfb.ca/iwashere - I WAS HERE is a media workshop that puts digital cameras and photoblogging websites into the hands of young parents. Five women, all pregnant or parenting, have been...
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Women, General resources, Ontario
October 5, 2008
Indigenous women's organizations are calling on all candidates in the upcoming federal election to stop the violence against indigenous women and children and to uphold and promote the rights of all...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Women, All of Canada
September 8, 2008
Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS) Immigrant Women Engagement in the Legal System project has released their first report, Engaging Immigrant Women In The Legal System-Community Engagement...
Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Research, LGBTQ, Violence, Women, British Columbia
June 28, 2008
In memory of all the missing and murdered women and children, aboriginal women are walking from Victoria, BC to Ottawa from June to September 2008. Gladys Radek, who lost a niece to the Highway of...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Women, British Columbia, All of Canada
May 28, 2008
http://www.stepitupontario.ca/ - The Step it Up Campaign is working to end violence against women.
Violence, Women, General resources, Ontario
March 19, 2008
http://cupwsisters.blogspot.com/ - F-email Fightback is a feminist blog about taking action on issues that effect women in Canada. The byline is "Harper’s Conservatives want women to stay home and be...
Blogs, Women, General resources, All of Canada
January 24, 2008
During the Governor General's tour of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside yesterday, women and residents blocked a local city councillor, Elizabeth Ball from entering the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre,...
Homelessness, Women, British Columbia
January 2, 2008
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) is a research institute which provides tools to facilitate organizations taking action to advance social justice and equality for all...
Women, General resources, All of Canada
January 2, 2008
The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women has a new fact sheet, Women’s experiences of social programs for people with low incomes (in PDF). This fact sheet weaves together the...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Ethnicity and Race, Welfare, Women, All of Canada
October 15, 2007
Shelagh Day and Gwen Brodsky have authored a study entitled: Women and the Canada Social Transfer:
Securing the Social Union (in PDF) and (website). The report explains how social assistance and...
Legal Aid, Welfare, Women, All of Canada
August 7, 2007
In July, women in the Downtown Eastside challenged Vancouver City council members to a House Swap. In a letter, the Power to Women group challenged the councillors to live for eight weeks off $610 a...
Homelessness, Housing, Women, British Columbia
August 1, 2007
www.wavaw.ca - Women Against Violence Against Women is a non-profit organization that provides sexual assault services to women in Vancouver. They operate within a feminist and anti-oppressive...
Violence, Women, British Columbia, General resources
August 1, 2007
www.pirs.bc.ca - Pacific Immigrant Resources Society (PIRS) is a non-profit, community based organization that has been providing services for immigrant women and their young children in Vancouver...
Immigrants and Refugees, Women, British Columbia, General resources
August 1, 2007
www.womenshealthcollective.ca - Vancouver Women's Health Collective is a collective of women who advocate for changes in women's health care. They have a practitioner/therapist directory, hold...
Health, Women, British Columbia, General resources
August 1, 2007
The BC Government has been hosting want they call a Conversation on Health with the residents of BC. In response, a coalition of community groups called the Women's Health Community Advisory...
Health, Women, British Columbia
July 16, 2007
Vancouver Island CBC Radio has a three part series on young women who are pregnant and homeless. The series talks to young women, service providers and others about the obstacles women face dealing...
Children and Youth, Homelessness, Women, British Columbia
July 13, 2007
womenagainstpoverty.blogspot.com - Women Against Poverty Collective is a group of women and trans people who are working together to advocate for safe, affordable and accessible housing for women...
Blogs, Organizing, Women, General resources, Ontario
July 12, 2007
The Women of Color Blog is a large blog and info site written by and for women of color. There are blog postings called The Poverty Diaries and a section on Healthy Cooking While in Poverty.
Blogs, Ethnicity and Race, Women, General resources, International, United States
June 26, 2007
Last week, at the National Aboriginal Women's Summit, the Minister for Heritage and the Status of Women announced five years of funding to build and support women's shelters on reserves. According to...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Violence, Women, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, All of Canada
June 5, 2007
On Sunday June 3rd, hundreds of women, trans people and their allies marched through the streets of Toronto to a vacant building. Four Women Against Poverty Collective members had already entered the...
Homelessness, Housing, Women, Ontario
April 11, 2007
http://www.unpac.ca/gender/- Gender Budget Project is a project based in Manitoba which aims to show how government budgets can either promote women's equality or exacerbate women's inequality.
Government Policy, Women, Manitoba, General resources
February 18, 2007
This year's Nobel Peace Price went to the founder of the microcredit bank, Muhammad Yunus. An article in The Dominion newspaper, "Microcredit and Women's Poverty" critiques microcredit for not doing...
Debt and Consumer Law, Women, International
February 18, 2007
Across the country there are two projects involving low income women taking photographs of their lives. In Saskatchewan a group of First Nations women are photographing what they see everyday as part...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Women, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan
January 7, 2007
A number of websites have sprouted up to protest the Conservative cuts to the Status of Women Canada. The cuts will also end funding to women's organizations that do lobbying, advocacy or research on...
Organizing, Women, All of Canada
January 7, 2007
In November, women who use the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC) asked the centre to be remain open after regular hours and act as a shelter for homeless women. With the help of volunteers, the...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, Women, British Columbia
September 17, 2006
The fifth edition of the Single Mothers' Survival Guide is now online. The guide has information for single mothers in Nova Scotia on accessing social assistance, legal aid, child support, and other...
Children and Youth, Family, Organizing, Women, General resources, Nova Scotia
September 17, 2006
A book of life stories of seven women who have triumphed over addiction, poverty, and illness in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in BC. George Ryga...
Art and Culture, Women, British Columbia
September 17, 2006
Pivot's report, Beyond Decriminalization: Sex Work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform presents the results of two years of research and in depth discussions with eighty-four sex workers...
Human Rights, Legal Research, Women, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
September 12, 2006
Le site web / Website: http://netfemmes.cdeacf.ca/les_ressources/bottin/
Cette page de recherche vous permet de sélectionner un thème (à partir de la liste ci-dessus) et une région du Québec; l'engin...
Family, Violence, Women, General resources, Québec
August 29, 2006
Justice for Girls has a number of online resources - a Girls' Rights Card, Rights of Incarcerated Girls in BC Facts Sheet, and reports, articles and links on girls and the criminal justice system.
Children and Youth, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Women, British Columbia, General resources
August 17, 2006
Mother of Red Nations Women's Council of Manitoba works "[t]o promote, protect and support the spiritual, emotional, physical and mental well being of all Aboriginal women and children in Manitoba."
Aboriginal and First Nations, Women, Manitoba, General resources
August 17, 2006
http://www.incite-national.org/ - "INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of...
Ethnicity and Race, Violence, Women, General resources, United States
August 17, 2006
Women of Color Web is a site providing access to writings by and about women of color in the U.S., focusing specifically on issues related to feminisms, sexualities, and reproductive health and...
Ethnicity and Race, Women, General resources, United States
