Canada held to account for its disappointing women’s rights record by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women For Immediate Release Joint Statement by Canadian Civil Society Organizations
How can you connect the dots between the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals, the calls for a national anti-poverty plan in Canada and CWP’s newly updated Poverty Progress Profiles?
If you’ve been following CWP’s website, twitter and facebook messages, you may know that earlier this month CWP’s Chair of our Board of Directors and Legal Education and Outreach Coordinator went to Geneva to the UN Human Rights Committee. In…
CWP denounces Income Tax Act as violation of freedom of expression and assembly in address to the United Nations July 6th, 2015 – Earlier today, the President of the Board of Directors of Canada Without Poverty, Harriett McLachlan, and CWP’s…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Thursday, May 8, 2014 CWP’s Executive Director Named as UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing OTTAWA: The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has just announced that Canada Without Poverty’s (CWP) Executive Director, Leilani Farha, has…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Canada Turns its Back on Human Rights at UN OTTAWA: Canada is set to take to the world’s stage on Thursday and reject key human rights recommendations to address poverty, homelessness and hunger,…
For immediate release: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – April 30, 2013) – Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council have formally challenged Canada’s human rights record with 83 countries making recommendations for enhanced rights protections. Part of the Universal…
In the past two weeks, Canada has seen two significant events take place. The first was the tabling of the 2013 federal budget, and the second was a pre-session on Canada in Geneva, which precedes the upcoming review of the…
Today, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, presented his report on his May 2012 mission to Canada to the United Nations. He reiterated his recommendations from the written final report submitted in December 2012, and concerns…
Thousands of people visibly and invisibly homeless, millions more housing insecure and housing affordability is dropping; Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis. Various programs and policies are in place across the country, but what is missing is…
Every New Year there is an undercurrent of excitement of untapped opportunities. A sense of possibility and hopefulness that change will happen. This New Year is no different as a number of upcoming meetings, debates and movements are getting greater…
Today marks the United Nations designated International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Around the world people are working to raise awareness of the plight of those struggling with low-income. Here are a few events CWP is involved with: Dignity…