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 Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) watched as the UN CEDEW Committee in Geneva grilled the Canadian government on Canada's failure to live up to the treaty. Some of the issues the committee brought up were domestic violence and child custody; shelters for victims of domestic violence; resident permits for victims of trafficking; co-incarceration of young women and young men; social assistance; suicide rates among Aboriginal youth; child death among Aboriginal people; male involvement in the defense of women’s rights; missing murdered Aboriginal women; HIV and AIDS among Aboriginal women; representation of women in the workplace; and availability of legal aid.