Submission of The British Columbia Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (B.C. CEDAW). 2010 Report to The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women regarding progress in implementing Priority Recommendations made in Canada. Submission title: Nothing to Report (PDF) THE B.C. CEDAW GROUP IS A COALITION of […]
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UN singles out BC government on women’s rights (March 2003)
B.C. is not meeting its obligations to women under international human rights law. That was the clear message of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in comments issued recently in New York City. The U.N. Committee singled out the province of British Columbia for criticism in its review of Canada’s […]