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Today Solidarity is Pink.

Posted: Friday, 6 April 2012

April 11, 2012 is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia and Transphobia in schools and communities. Celebrate diversity and raise awareness to end bullying by downloading your very own D.I.Y Day of Pink Solidarity decal below.… Read More

Advancing Equity by the Numbers and Reporting on Past Promises - A Survey

Posted: Saturday, 7 May 2011

At the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) 2008 Convention, delegates passed two important equity resolutions: i) for the CLC and its affiliates to undertake a gender and equity audit; and ii) to survey affiliates on their progress implementing the recommendatio… Read More

Retirement Security and the 2011 Federal Election

Posted: Tuesday, 5 April 2011

How do the platforms of the federal political parties stack up on the issue of retirement security? Conservative Party Liberal Party … Read More

Backgrounder - Labour’s unique perspective on Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Initiative

Posted: Monday, 14 June 2010

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Canada would “champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world’s poorest regions.” Two days later, Harper reiterated his intention at the World Economi… Read More

A Quick Education in Pay Equity - Women's Economic Equality

Posted: Monday, 17 May 2010

Why do we need pay equity laws? The simple answer is that without laws (or unions fighting for higher wages), employers will pay as little as possible for wages. If they can get away with paying women less, they will. Until the 1950s, men and women wo… Read More

Migrant farm workers pay dearly — thanks to government flawed program

Posted: Tuesday, 13 April 2010

In March 2010, nine migrant workers were arrested and detained for suspected violations of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) affiliate, the United Food and Commercial Workers, who operate agricultural centres across… Read More

Lubicon Community Deserves Justice

Posted: Thursday, 25 March 2010

“Twenty years is too long to wait for justice” said Hassan Yussuff, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress. Twenty years ago, on 26 March 1990, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ruled that Canada had violated the huma… Read More

Labour Advocacy Toolkit - Organising to Achieve Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support

Posted: Tuesday, 23 March 2010

The challenge to HIV and AIDS has to be a long-term commitment. Trade unions are well suited to take on that challenge. As organisations they have been in existence for decades. They have been and are at the forefront of many long-term struggles for social … Read More

Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On

Posted: Monday, 22 February 2010

Part One: Overall Achievements and Obstacles There has been a sharp decrease in institutional and political support by the Government of Canada for the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls during the period 2004 - 2009. This is … Read More

Report of the Information Clearinghouse on Border Controls and Infringements to Travellers’ Rights

Posted: Tuesday, 16 February 2010

1. Introduction The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) supports legitimate efforts to combat terrorism which is in itself a serious attack on human rights, but argues that these efforts must always respect human rights norms. It is not… Read More

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