Reports (1990): Parallel Report to the Second Report of Canada to U.N. Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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Title: Reports (1990): Parallel Report to the Second Report of Canada to U.N. Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Date: 1990

Region: National (all of Canada)

NAC’s 1990 Parallel Report to the Second Report of Canada to the United Nations highlights those aspects of the Canadian government’s actions which specifically relate to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination. The report flags the Canadian government’s diminishing commitment to funding for women’s organizations and the adverse effects of deficit reduction and privatization policies. It criticizes the exclusion of the specific circumstances of “native women, visible minority women and women with disabilities” and highlights where the net effect of government action has been to increase barriers to all women’s full and equal participation, or inadequately addresses their removal.