UNMIT CelebratIons of International Women's Day

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On 9 March, UNMIT Celebrated International Women's Day with foods and cultural performances from around the world. Photo by UNMIT/Bernardino Soares

The 30th Anniversary of Canadian Equality Rights: W(h)ither Sex Equality?-Prof Donna Greschner (Victoria)

by | Feb 12, 2015

In this seminar Prof Greschner examined key features of the Supreme Court of Canada’s jurisprudence on section 15 – the general equality rights provision of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom – from the aspirational perspective of substantive sex equality. Within each of the three distinct doctrinal periods over the past thirty years, the potential to use Charter rights effectively in promoting substantive equality for women has diminished. Is there any way out of the ever-narrowing doctrinal cage?

 

Listen to a recording of this seminar here:

 

 

Photos from the event:

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