A New Initiative: CASAC Convention 2005

Violence Against Women and Concepts of Women’s Equality and Freedom

· Canada’s Promises to Keep: The Charter and Violence Against Women

· Why “Law and Order” Cannot End Violence Against Women; and Why the Development of Women’s (Social, Economic and Political and Civil) Rights Might

· Against the Use of Justice

Male Violence against Women and the Loss of Welfare

· Feminist Statement on Guaranteed Living Income

· The Pictou Statement

· Restructuring Canada at the Beginning of the New Century

Women’s Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization

· Audio files from Conference, Plenaries 1 to 9

Anti-trafficking Policy and Work

· New CASAC policy

· Montreal Letter to Canadian Government – Decriminalize the prostitutes, not prostitution

· Swedish Law material

· 1.D.d. Experiential Women’s Consensus statement

· Ending Prostitution: Public Forum | link 1 (description of public forum) | link 2 (view webcast of public forum conducted in October 2003. Working TV Archive 2003 )

· Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Pornography and Prostitution

· The Promotion of Prostitution from Canada’s Promises to Keep

· Working With Refugee Women

· Live-in Caregivers Speak at Public Forum on Ending Prostitution October 2003 | link1 | link2

· 10 Reasons Not to Legalize Prostitution

· Position Paper on Reform of Prostitution Laws

Maintaining Autonomous Feminist Groups

· Background of Relations Between the Canadian Government and the Canadian Women’s Movement

· Funny Things Happen on Our Way to Revolution

· Feminism in the Transition House

· A Consideration of Feminist Process

· Consensus Decision-Making Map

· Updated CASAC policy on the role of men

· Why the Independent Women’s Movement, Statement to the Left

Counseling and Advocacy Issues

· A Rape Crisis View of of Rohypnol: How the Hype Tricks Raped Women

· The Role of the Victim in the Criminal Justice System — Circle Sentencing in Inuit Communities

· Counseling and Advocacy, Restorative Justice AWAN Policy

· 1.F.d. Related audio files from the 2001 Women’s Resistance Conference

· CASAC Polygraph Policy

Cases:

· Prologue: The Heron Case

· Pickton, the Police, the Pig Farm and the Missing Women

· Bernardo and Pickton: Making the Cases of Monsters

· R v. Tyhurst and Gorman v. Tyhurst

· Nellie Nippard’s Story

· Jane Doe and The Charter from the CASAC Point of View

· The Trafficked Chinese Boat Women of Fujian Province

· Bonnie Mooney’s Story

· May/Iles and Hadley Wife Murders and the Use of Coroner’s Courts

· 911Death By Indifference in Winnipeg

· David Hilton Junior, Convicted March 2001, Sentence Seven Years

· Former Nova Scotia Premier, Gerald Regan and Eighteen Sex Related Charges

· Just For Laughs: From Guilty Plea to Unconditional Discharge

Relations between the Canadian Government and the Canadian Women’s Movement

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Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Status of Women

· A Mandate of Equality Women and Electoral Reform: Pursuing a Feminist Policy Agenda in Canada

· Canada’s Commitment to Equality: A Gender Analysis of the Last Ten Federal Budgets

· Tide? or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire

· Background of Relations Between the Canadian Government and the Canadian Women’s Movement

Draft Convention Agenda

· Click here to review the draft agenda (updated April 14, 2005)

CASAC Resolutions 2005

· Agreed Upon Resolutions at CASAC convention 2005

CASAC Proposed Resolutions 2005

· Relationship to Caller

· Poverty

· The Charter and Criminal Justice

· Relation to Canadian Government

· Internationalism

· Public Education

· Funding