masthead
masthead
 
Welcome to the Native Women's Association of Canada Website
Site Search  Print this PageAdd to Favourites  Text Resize   

NAWS Logo

Sisters In Spirit

BIS Logo

Health Unit Logo

Youth Council Logo

AHRDA Logo

Daughter Spirit Logo

MRP logo

Current News  

 


Pickton Appeal Disappointing for Grieving Families

Ottawa, ON (November 27, 2009)The Native Women’s Association of Canada is dismayed that the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to broaden the scope of Robert Pickton’s appeal on six counts of second-degree murder. Effectively, the decision gives Pickton more grounds to argue that his convictions should be overturned. His trial concluded in 2007 and was one of the most high profile, longest, and expensive in Canadian history. Many of Pickton’s victims were Aboriginal or of Aboriginal descent.

[Read More PDF Document]


Miyo Machihowin - National Aboriginal Health Careers Conference & Tradeshow

Health Careers conference aimed at Aboriginal youth in 2010

Speakers, vendors invited

Ottawa, ON (November 26, 2009) — Doctors and nurses are not the only two jobs in the health care field. That is why the Native Women’s Association of Canada is holding a two-day conference and tradeshow for Aboriginal youth on careers in this exciting and diverse field.

[Read More PDF Document]

[Miyo Machihowin Conference Poster PDF Document]


International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Presents an Opportunity for Positive Change

Ottawa, ON (November 25, 2009) Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, called today for an end to violence against all women in Canada. November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

[Read More PDF Document]

16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence

Amnesty International Canada's A Wake Up Call to Canada Canada petition


Poverty Is Hurting Aboriginal Families

Ottawa, ON (November 25, 2009) Yesterday marked the twentieth anniversary of Parliament unanimously passing a resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Once again a renewed call is being voiced to eliminate poverty. While the child poverty rate of Aboriginal children has gone down since 1995, Aboriginal Peoples are at a higher risk of poverty; in fact more than one in three Aboriginal children live in low-income families. The Native Women’s Association of Canada strongly feels that the elimination of poverty in Canada must be made a national priority.

[Read More PDF Document]

[Read Campaign 2000 National Report Card PDF Document]


NAWS Logo

PDF Document Final Report for the Second National Aboriginal Women’s Summit (NAWS II)

PDF Document Final Report (NAWS II - Inuktitut Version)



New Report finds Experiences of

Aboriginal Peoples in Federal Prisons Unacceptable

Ottawa, ON (November 13, 2009) The Office of the Correctional Investigator today released an independent report once again calling for a Deputy Commissioner for Aboriginal Corrections to the Executive Committee of the Correctional Service of Canada. The Report, Good Intentions, Disappointing Results: A Progress Report on Federal Aboriginal Corrections, confirms the unacceptable situation of Aboriginal offenders under federal sentence in Canada and details the significant gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders on nearly every indicator.

[Read More PDF Document]

[Read OCI Press Release PDF Document]

[Read OCI Report PDF Document]


Aboriginal Women Lose in Dismissal of McIvor Decision

Ottawa, ON (November 6, 2009) After over twenty years in a fight for equality, yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed with costs the case of Sharon Donna McIvor v. Registrar, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. The Native Women’s Association of Canada is disappointed with the decision not to grant leave to appeal to Sharon McIvor, given that the issue of who can or cannot be an Indian is surely one of national importance.

[Read More PDF Document]

[Sharon McIvor's Response to INAC Proposal PDF Document]


Aboriginal Affairs Ministers Moves Agenda Forward for Aboriginal Women

Toronto, ON (October 30, 2009) Yesterday the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and leaders of National Aboriginal Organizations met for the first time with federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for Aboriginal Affairs. This meeting was the first of an Aboriginal Affairs Working Group that will meet on an ongoing basis to move dialogue forward on the many issues affecting Aboriginal Peoples, including education and skills training and economic development.

[Read More PDF Document]

[AAWG Communiqué PDF Document]

Leaders at Aboriginal Affairs Ministers Meeting


Sisters In Spirit Grandmother Moon Logo

4th Annual Sisters In Spirit Vigils to be held Nationwide October 4th

Ottawa, ON (October 1st, 2009) This weekend Sisters In Spirit vigils will take place across Canada. October 4th is a day where we honour the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. After four years, we are pleased to announce that the number of vigils has grown from 11 in 2006 to an incredible 72 in 69 communities for 2009. From coast to coast to coast, in all ten provinces and two territories, and internationally in Nicaragua, thousands will gather to publicly highlight the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.

[Read More PDF Document]

[Sisters In Spirit Joint Statement PDF Document]

[Media Contacts for Vigils PDF Document]

 
Akwesasne Mohawk Territory
Athabasca, AB
Beaver FN, AB
Chibougamau, QC
Chilliwack, BC
Coquitlam, BC
Corner Brook, NL
Dryden, ON
Elsipogtog FN, NB
Fort Smith, NWT
Georgina Island FN, ON
Halifax, NS
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL
Haileybury, ON
Hamilton, ON
High Prairie, AB
La Ronge, SK
London, ON
Makkovik, NL
Membertou, NS
Montréal, QC
Moricetown, BC
Muscowpetung FN, SK
Nanaimo, BC
Newmarket, ON
New Westminster, BC
Nicaragua
Pasqua FN, SK
Peace River, AB
Prince Albert, SK
Slave Lake, AB
St. John’s, NL
Tobique FN, NB
Toronto, ON
Truro, NS
Vancouver, BC
Victoria, BC
Wagmatcook, NS
Waywayseecappo FN, MB
Whitehorse, YK
 
Yorkton, SK
 

Jeannette Corbiere Lavell and Michaelle Jean

Newly Elected Native Women’s Association of Canada President To Receive Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case

Ottawa, ON (September 30, 2009) Tomorrow Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will present Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, the newly elected President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case. President Corbiere Lavell is one of six receiving this award at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

[Read More PDF Document]

[Read Government Press Release PDF Document]


President Corbiere-Lavell

Native Women’s Association of Canada
Welcomes Jeannette Corbiere Lavell as new President

Ottawa, ON (September 28, 2009) Aboriginal women from coast to coast to coast gathered this past weekend at the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s 35th Annual General Assembly in Ottawa. Yesterday after two rounds of voting, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell was elected as the new President of NWAC.

[Read More PDF Document]

[President Corbiere Lavell's Biography PDF Document]


UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
Canadian government isolated as global implementation moves ahead

(September 12, 2009) — A new report released today shows governments and institutions around the world are moving ahead with implementation of a human rights instrument that the minority government of Canada has denounced as “unworkable.”

[Read More PDF Document]

PDF Document Global Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - and Canada's Increasing Isolation


RSS Feed - Subscribe to our News Feed RSS - Subscribe to NWAC News