June 25, 2012
The Ministry of Justice has announced that the new Family Law Act will come fully into force on March 18, 2013. As the new Act is not yet in full force, the current Family Relations Act continues to...
Keywords: Family, family law, Violence, Women, British Columbia, Factsheets and FAQs
May 24, 2012
The Richmond Low Income Resource Directory has a full list of services for low income people in Richmond.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Disability, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Directories
May 23, 2012
Access Williams Lake and Area is a free, regularly updated directory connecting residents of Williams Lake with a wide variety of resources including advocacy, crisis services, health, disability,...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Housing, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, Williams Lake, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Directories
February 28, 2012
Sources Community Resource Centres is a community-based non-profit agency dedicated to supporting the needs of children, youth and families, persons with disabilities, and seniors that reside...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Disability, Family, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
December 6, 2011
Your Legal Rights is a website of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario and...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Health, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), legal information, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, Gateways, Ontario
June 15, 2011
This article compares heterosexual and sexual minority street-involved youth across a number of sociodemographic, risk and current mental health, victimization and delinquency measures with a...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Homelessness, LGBTQ, Women, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 13, 2011
The Ontario Provincial Government has appointed a commission to review the income security system, including social assistance. The commission's mandate is to develop a plan to reform the system. As...
Keywords: Disability, Government Policy, isac, Organizing, social assistance review, Welfare, Women, Manuals and guides, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 13, 2011
This page at the Income Security Advocacy Centre provides information on and a link to, a letter sent to commissioners of the Social Assistance Review in Ontario, urging them to consider issues of...
Keywords: Disability, isac, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Women, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 1, 2011
Parenting On Your Own, the Manitoba Women's Advisory Council's online resource for single parents, advises single parents of their rights and to list the services and supports that are available in...
Keywords: Family, Women, Manitoba, Manuals and guides
June 1, 2011
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 control of local...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Organizations, United States
June 1, 2011
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.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Family, Women, Ontario, Organizations
June 1, 2011
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 documenting their lives in...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Media, Technology, Women, Ontario, Multimedia
June 1, 2011
The Prince Edward Island Advisory Council on the Status of Women is an arms-length from government advisory agency. The nine members of Council are appointed by government to work for equality and to...
Keywords: Blogs, Women, Prince Edward Island
June 1, 2011
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 quiet. . . We refuse!"
Keywords: Blogs, Women, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
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 since 1975.
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Immigrants and Refugees, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
May 30, 2011
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 experiencing violence.
Keywords: Organizing, Women, Ontario, Organizations
May 30, 2011
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 framework and are...
Keywords: Violence, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
May 30, 2011
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 workshops and provide other...
Keywords: Health, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
May 30, 2011
Cette page de recherche vous permet de sélectionner un thème (à partir de la liste ci-dessus) et une région du Québec; l'engin de recherche vous présente une liste de liens vers des organismes...
Keywords: Family, Violence, Women, Directories, Québec
May 30, 2011
This website is the UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women.
Keywords: Women, Organizations, International
May 30, 2011
The purpose of Young Women Connect is to "connect" young women locally and nationally across Canada on the issues and actions towards eliminating racism, violence and poverty.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Organizing, Women, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
This is the website for a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-sectarian organization who's mission is to ensure equality for immigrant and visible minority women, within a bilingual Canada.
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Women, Organizations, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
BC Centre for Women's Health (BCCWH) has many online resources on aboriginal health, health care reform, women and addictions, women with disabilities, lesbian health and many more.
Keywords: Health, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
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.
Keywords: Government Policy, Women, Campaigns and initiatives, Manitoba
May 29, 2011
This website has an excellent report on women, poverty and health. The report looks at women in Manitoba but the findings translate universally.
Keywords: Health, Women, Organizations, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
Justice for Girls is a non-profit organisation based in Vancouver promoting support, justice and equality for low income and street-involved teenage girls who have experienced violence.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Violence, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
An up to date website containing resources, news, statistics and more, focusing on the issues faced by women with disabilities.
Keywords: Disability, Women, Ontario, Organizations
May 29, 2011
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.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
A group fighting against the forces which marginalize women in Canada.
Keywords: Organizing, Women, Organizations, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
BC 211 is British Columbia's directory of community, social and government services. Available online or by dialling 211, where staff are available 24/7 to assist those looking for services.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 29, 2011
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."
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Women, Manitoba, Organizations
May 27, 2011
The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence is one of the Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health supported by the Women’s Health Bureau of Health Canada. The Centres are dedicated to improving...
Keywords: Health, Women, Manitoba, Organizations, Research and education
May 27, 2011
The Vancouver Status of Women's (VSW) Welfare Resource Guide for Women (in PDF) provides general information to women about British Columbia's welfare system or Employment and Assistance Regulations...
Keywords: Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 25, 2011
Status of Women Canada (SWC) is a federal government organization that promotes the full participation of women in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada.
Keywords: Human Rights, Women, Government information, All of Canada
May 25, 2011
Based out of the University of California Hastings Campus, this organization acts as a resource for gender based asylum seekers.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Women, Organizations, Research and education, United States
May 25, 2011
Regina Immigrant Women Centre provides support services and programs geared to the development of immigramnt, refugee women and their families.
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Women, Organizations, Saskatchewan
May 25, 2011
The Step it Up Campaign is working to end violence against women.
Keywords: Violence, Women, Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario
May 19, 2011
C'est un engagement solidaire dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et ses conséquences. (Centraide Quebec is a joint commitment in the fight against the poverty and its consequences)
Keywords: Homelessness, Seniors and Elders, united way, Women, Organizations, Québec
May 19, 2011
The Fourth World Conference on Women (1995), a United Nations initiative, has a platform for action on women and poverty.
Keywords: un, united nations, Women, women, Reports and documents, International
May 19, 2011
Founded in 1998, Women Thrive (Formerly Womens Edge Coalition) develops, shapes, and advocates for policies that foster economic opportunity for women living in poverty.
Keywords: Human Rights, human rights, Organizing, poverty, Women, women, Organizations, United States
