Women’s Equality Advocacy Resource Guide
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS)
Issues Resources for developing knowledge of the issue Tools for strategizing and taking action Contact Issues Resources for developing knowledge of the issue
Discrimination and human rights violations faced by all women involved in the Canadian criminal justice system.
10th Anniversary of the Arbour Commission Report
http://www.elizabethfry.ca/arbr10e.pdf
(How the recommendations of a 1996 Commission of Inquiry by the Honourable Justice Louise Arbour have not been acted upon and remain issues of deep concern today).
10 Years and Waiting
http://www.elizabethfry.ca/waiting.pdf
(Media release and contacts for joint action)
caefs@web.ca
(613) 238-2422
Women in the criminal justice system are highly likely to victims of physical and sexual abuse and to have experienced poverty.
Violence Against Women and Children Fact Sheet
http://www.elizabethfry.ca/eweek07/pdf/violence.pdf
(Presents facts and statistics to illustrate patterns of vulnerability to abuse and links between poverty, abuse and criminalization).
Please contact your local women's centre
for more information