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It was founded in 1971 as a pressure group to lobby for the implementation of the 167 recommendations made in the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada's 1970 report [1] on matters such as day care, birth control, maternity leave, family law, education and pensions. [2]
The JCC was the main advocacy group for the Jewish community in Canada from 1919 to 2011, advocating for human rights, social equality, Canadian immigration reform and civil and political rights in Canada. [9] [10] Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee political; Canadian Radio League political; Canadian Snowbird Association political
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Women also established and became involved with organizations to advance women's rights, including suffrage. In 1893, the National Council of Women of Canada was formed which was designed to bring together representatives of different women's groups across Canada, providing a network for women to communicate their concerns and ideas. [9]
The agency also led the celebration in 2016 of the 100th Anniversary of Women's First Right to Vote in Canada. [7] Status of Women Canada' has led events like Women's History Month, International Day of the Girl, and October 18, the day that Women were officially recognized as legal persons, appropriately called Persons Day.
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Seventeen agencies and departments of the Government of Canada participated in the working group. [4] The group produced a pamphlet in 14 languages with the intention of educating at-risk women about how they might avoid being trafficked. [5] This pamphlet was distributed internationally. [6]
REAL Women of Canada (French: Vraies Femmes du Canada) is a socially conservative advocacy group in Canada.The organization was founded in 1983. REAL stands for "Realistic, Equal, Active, for Life". The group believes that the nuclear family is the most important unit in Canadian society, and that the fragmentation of the Canadian family is a prima