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2017 Cedaw Report Card

27 Nov 2017

Canada’s compliance with the Convention was assessed in 2016, and the UN Committee on the Elimination commitment to of Discrimination against Women (the “CEDAW Committee”) raised significant women’s equality concerns about Canada’s commitment to women’s equality rights and rights and adherence adherence to the treaty’s protections, including with regard to areas of provincial to the treaty’s gover [...] We used the following scale to assign grades to BC’s progress in each area: From the CEDAW A Fulfilment of CEDAW obligations and satisfaction of the concerns Committee’s of the CEDAW Committee. [...] Vancouver Coastal Health issued a statement that the child’s death has prompted a review of procedures for handling repeated violations.33 Saini and Sheppard are now advocating for easier and faster public access to the history of complaints lodged against child care providers.34 The current BC The 2017 Budget released prior to the change of government in BC did not government did not include fund [...] As of December 2016, most of the surviving biological children of the missing and murdered women identified in the Commission’s report had received a compensation payment of $50,000, as recommended.133 In December 2016, in response to pressure from the Auditor General of BC, the previous government pledged to resume public reporting (which it had dropped in 2014) on progress towards implementing r [...] BC has yet to create a Regarding the National Inquiry, the BC government granted commissioners plan for implementing the authority to examine matters within provincial jurisdiction.135 However, the CEDAW Committee’s some advocates questioned the province’s commitment to the process in light of its unwillingness to subject Crown Counsel to scrutiny or to disclose legally 2015 recommendations restri
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Pages
36
Published in
Vancouver, BC, CA

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