Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
When my then-husband and I decided to have a second child, we had three more years of lived experience under our respective belts. I had led the development of a co-op child care centre at the university I had been Continue reading Happy birthday, Jesse!
When our now-16-year-old grandson was 12, my partner and I took him on an adventure to Morocco. We had visited the country a couple of years earlier, loved it and vowed to return. In the meantime, a friend had moved Continue reading Costa Rica, here we come!
In the mid-1980s, domestic violence was still considered a private matter between a husband and wife, not something to be talked about in polite company or even to be closely regulated by the law. At that time, if a woman Continue reading TIme to revisit mandatory charging?
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