The 2016 report card on women’s rights in British Columbia shows the province continues to lag on promises made in the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
The CEDAW convention
CEDAW stands for the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. It is a United Nations (UN) Convention that “defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.” (un.org)
Read more about CEDAW.
What is the CEDAW report card?
West Coast LEAF publishes the CEDAW Report Card each year on October 18 (Person’s Day), grading the BC government on how well it has adhered to the Convention over the past year. As UN CEDAW only reports on Canada every four years, the Report Card monitors BC’s compliance to the Convention between reporting periods in order to hold the government accountable to both UN standards and BC Women.
Read the 2016 CEDAW report card.
Joint submission to the UN on child care and CEDAW
In October 2016, West Coast LEAF partnered with the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC on a submission to the United Nations about the essential role of child care for fulfilling Canada’s obligations under CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). Our Director of Law Reform traveled to Geneva, Switzerland alongside representatives of 13 other Canadian NGOs to report to the UN during the review of Canada’s CEDAW performance.
Read the joint submission.
We speak with Kendra Milne, director of law reform at West Coast LEAF, about the 2016 CEDAW report card and the submission to the U.N. on child care and CEDAW.
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