Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Ontario’s Liberal government took another step in its work to address violence against women with the announcement of a Gender Based Violence Strategy on March 1. A week before International Women’s Day and just over three months before the next Continue reading Ontario’s new Gender Based Violence Strategy
When my sisters and I were kids, my mother did not let us have Barbie dolls. Not a feminist by any stretch, she still understood that the images of women’s bodies presented by Barbie dolls were neither healthy nor realistic. Continue reading Barbie, Bratz and cosmetic gynaecology
The past several months has seen an unprecedented number of women coming forward to speak out about sexual violence and harassment they have experienced in their professional lives. The jury is still out about whether the courage these women have Continue reading Women can be experts, too
On November 25, 2015, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Dubravka Simonovic, called on all States to focus on gender-related killing of women by the creation of a “femicide Continue reading Just because they are women