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Canada – Aboriginal Peoples Roundtable 2004-2005

Aboriginal Women's Health Background Document (2004)

Aboriginal Women and Housing (2004)

Accountability for Results from an Aboriginal Women's Perspective (2005)

Economic Opportunities Background Document (2004)

Life Long Learning Background Document (2004)

Alternative Report: Follow Up to the Sectoral Sessions, Canada – Aboriginal Peoples' Roundtable (2005)

Children and Youth

Aboriginal Children Living Off-Reserve: Ages 0-6 Years (2003)

Early Learning and Child care (2005)

Elders

Hearing Their Stories: 40 Aboriginal Women Speak (1997)

Environment

See Environment for external reports

First Ministers' Meeting on Aboriginal Issues (2005) and Bill C-292

 First Ministers' Meeting on Aboriginal Issues – Companion Document (2005)

Bill C-292 Kelowna Accord Implementation Act (2006)

Bill C-292 Kelowna Accord Implementation Act – Senate Hearing (2008)

Governance

A First Nation Citizenship Code (1986)

A Report on the Corbière Consultation (2000)

 An Aboriginal Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1992)

 Aboriginal Constitutional Discussions and Treaty Rights (1991)

Aboriginal Women, Self-Government and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1991)

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Plain Language Version

First Nations/Métis Human Rights Law: The History of NWAC's Position and Options for Future Action (1988)

Matriarchy and the Canadian Charter

Native Women and Aboriginal Treaty Rights

Native Women and Self-Government

Native Women and the Canada Package

Native Women and the Charter

 Our Way of Being: Gathering of Indigenous Women on Self-Government (2003)

 Québec Native Women and Bill C-7

The Social Union Framework Agreement (2002)

Statement on the Canada Package

Health

 Aboriginal Women and HIV/AIDS Needs Assessment (1997)

 Aboriginal Women and Health Care in Canada (2002)

 Aboriginal Women and Substance Abuse Needs Assessment (1996)

 A Directory of Mental Health Programs and Services (1996)

Health Careers Index Tool (2006)

Social Determinants of Health and Canada's Aboriginal Women – NWAC's Submission to the World Health

      Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (2007)

 Tobacco Reduction Strategy (1995)

The Indian Act, Bill C-31

 Aboriginal Women and the Implementation of Bill C-31 (1991)

 Bill C-31 Amendment Literature Review (2001)

 Equality for all in the 21st Century: 2nd National Conference on Bill C-31 (1999)

 Guide to Bill C-31: An Explanation of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act (1986)

Implementing Bill C-31: A Summary of the Issues (1988)

Preliminary Impacts and Concerns Flowing from the Implementation of Bill C-31 (1988)

Processing Applications for Status Under Bill C-31 (1988)

The Implementation of Bill C-31 (1988)

 Unity for our Grandchildren: 1st National Conference on Bill C-31 (1998)

International

Closing the Implementation Gap - Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights in Canada (2006)

NWAC Report in Response to Canada's Fourth and Fifth Reports on the International Covenant on Economic,

      Social and Cultural Rights (2006)

Report of the North America Preparatory Meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

      — Seventh Session

      Consultant Céleste McKay as Co-Rapporteur

      February 22-23, 2008 — Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver, BC

Justice

 Aboriginal Women and Gender Bias in the Legal Profession (1992)

Aboriginal Women's Healing Lodge (1993)

Aboriginal Women: Police Charging Policies and Domestic Violence (1994)

Aboriginal Women's Law Journal (1994)

 Aboriginal Women's Rights are Human Rights (1999)

 Bill 107: The Proposed "Direct Access" Model Equals Less Access to Human Rights for the Most Marginalized and

      Disadvantaged in Ontario! (2006)

 Class Action as a Remedy for Abuse Experienced in Residential Schools (1992)

Dancing with a Gorilla: Aboriginal Women, Justice and the Charter (1992)

Detailed Position of the Native Women's Association of Canada on the Complaint Regarding the Discriminatory

      Treatment of Federally Sentenced Women by the Government of Canada filed by the Canadian Association of

      Elizabeth Fry Societies (2003)

 Institutional Abuse and Public Response (1992)

 Policing and Aboriginal Women (1996)

 Proposed Amendments to the Criminal Code Under Bill C-49: The Perspective of Aboriginal Women (1992)

Second Stage Housing for Native Women (1993)

 Violations of Indigenous Human Rights (2002)

Matrimonial Real Property

Reclaiming Our Way of Being: Matrimonial Real Property Solutions (2007)

Miscellaneous

Addressing Root Causes, Creating Choices: Pre-Budget Submission (2006)

Butterflies Without Roots: Aboriginal Women in the Western Northwest Territories (1993)

Guide to Federal Government Programs (1997)

 Impacts on Funding Cuts on the Native Women's Association of Canada and all Aboriginal Women in Canada

      (2006)

National Aboriginal Women's Summit

National Aboriginal Women's Summit – Standing Committee Presentation (2008)

See NAWS for reports