The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund is a national non-profit organization that works to advance women's equality. Founded in 1985, LEAF focuses primarily on litigation and law reform -- using court action as a tool to create social change. Over the years, LEAF has participated in more than 140 cases, appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada more than 30 times, and won significant victories for women in areas such as reproductive freedom, violence, employment discrimination and sexual harassment. Your stories, if they're permitted to run at all, are considered too "special interest" to run consecutively (feminist analysis is OK in small doses, of course, just not week after week). You're easily stereotyped as a humourless, man-hating, hairy-legged bitch, and your arguments -- ...
...- and -. Attorney General of Canada and Women's Legal. Education and Action Fund. Interveners. C...Criminal law - Sexual assault - Consent - Accused and complainant consen... against themselves by limiting their freedom to determine autonomously when and with whom they ...
...First, like Aboriginal non-sexual offenders, Aboriginal sex offenders score higher o... as a chi-square, with x - 1 degree of freedom (x = the number of levels of a moderator, which in...
This study draws on the Theory of Planned Behaviour to examine the role of gender in the decision to be mentored. Contrary to expectations, men and women employ similar decision criteria in the decision to seek a mentor. The primary driver for seeking a mentor was to obtain psychosocial support, including personal support, acceptance, having a confidant, being trusted and friendship. Men were more likely than women to seek a mentor when they valued increased autonomy. The implications of the findings for protégés, mentors and career development professionals are noted.
... including misinterpretation of intent as a sexual advance, office gossip resulting from perceived se... that pecuniary outcomes lead to freedom, while for other respondents compensation is the h...
This paper sets the current debate about Canada's criminal law prohibiting polygamy in an historical, social and legal context, and argues that this law is constitutionally valid and sound social policy. Unlike the recognition of same-sex marriage, which promoted equality and saved government resources, the recognition of polygamy would promote inequality and impose costs on Canadian society. The social reality of polygamy is often exploitative of women and harmful to children, and its practice is contrary to fundamental Canadian values. If Canada's prohibition on polygamy is ruled unconstitutional, we would likely have to allow immigration by polygamous families. Western European countries, which allowed immigration by polygamous families in the past, experienced significant social and...
..., based primarily (but not exclusively) on freedom of religion. Freedom of religion and other Charter... prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in regard to such matters as employmen...
... also found social harm in the fact that sexual exchanges took place in the presence of other memb... of anti-social acts or attitudes toward women, or for that matter men. No one was pressured to h...Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, ss. 163(8), ...
... of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religi...(83) Women represented forty-seven percent of the claimants a...
This article focuses on rural girls' aspirations of becoming migrants in a setting where girls are subjected to social constraints curtailing their movements in the midst of an otherwise mobile society, where mothers and grandmothers frequently recall their experiences in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and boys set off on their first migration in their mid- or late teens. However, the high level of mobility affects both intergenerational relations and the ways in which girls can justify their wish to migrate. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research between 2002 and 2008 in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, the article explores the ways in which images of success and material wealth of (trans)national migrants feed into adolescent girls' imaginations of migration and its outcome. Furthermore,...
...' aspirations of becoming migrants and young women's experiences as migrants in a setting where girls... by scurrilous rumours about their sexual life, irrespective of their actual behaviour. The ... difficult for men to allow their wife the freedom to take employment, because they believed that if ...
Slavery was a dominant phenomenon of antiquity. Gradually it has declined in the modern world. The blessings of modern moral attitudes and virtues were instrumental for these structural changes. Recently, child trafficking, especially female child trafficking has become a painful reality in Bangladesh. This child trafficking has been occurring internally and also across the border to India, Pakistan, Malaysia and many Middle Eastern countries. The rate of growth of this trafficking has been increasing alarmingly in this country. Every year several hundred (under the age of eighteen) children are being trafficked abroad. These trafficked children are adapting to a new life style which is different from the life style had they lived in their normal (life style which they supposed to follo...
... trafficking", especially in children and women is the outcome of social and economic vulnerabilit... and abusive situations, such as commercial sexual abuse, forced marriage, bonded and forced labour, ... children are abused and denied their freedom. They have no freedom of movement, if at all allow...
...The Attorney General of Canada,. Women's Legal Education and Action Fund ("LEAF"),. Disab...and Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton Interveners. Indexed as... 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and their violation constitutes an offence under t...
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