Canadian Women's Foundation Annual Report 2023-2024 - Report - Page 40
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Advancing gender justice and equality means advocating for long-term systemic change and breaking
down critical barriers facing women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Together, we impact power,
safety, rights and support:
Power
Rights
Your support enables us to partner with equityseeking groups, networks, and organizations to
have greater influence on government policy and
public attitudes and behaviours. Advocacy efforts
include:
Your support enables the Foundation and its
partners to push for culture and policy shifts to
protect the rights of women and gender-diverse
people in Canada. Advocacy efforts include:
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Strengthening employment equity law
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Increased government support for
organizations that serve women, girls, and
gender-diverse people
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Calling for trans and nonbinary inclusion
in gender equality efforts and accelerated
progress toward 2SLGBTQIA+ rights
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Policies and practices that increase digital
safety for women, girls, and gender-diverse
people (see P. 46)
Support
Safety
Together, we influence institutions that impact
the safety of women and gender-diverse people.
Advocacy efforts include:
Together, we work to ensure that our grantee
partners are better able to support the
unique communities they serve, and that
those communities have access to inclusive
programming. Advocacy efforts include:
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Protection and support for refugee women,
girls, and gender-diverse people
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Addressing the gendered impacts of climate
change and incorporating a gender lens into
emergency preparedness planning (see P. 44)
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More community-based programming for girls
and gender-diverse people, particularly in rural
and remote areas
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Bolstering gun control measures to reduce
gender-based violence
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Strengthening mental health services tailored
to the needs of underserved communities
Program Spotlight: Lanark County Interval House and Community
Support, Lanark County, Ontario.
Your generosity supported the campaign for Ontario to declare intimate partner violence (IPV) an
epidemic. A Foundation grant to Lanark County Interval House and Community Support enabled
rural, remote, and northern gender-based violence organizations to participate in province-wide
action planning on this issue. Advocates say that calling IPV an epidemic shifts it from a private to
a public health issue that requires increased government resources. Ontario initially rejected this
recommendation of the inquest into the triple femicide of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk, and
Nathalie Warmerdam in 2015. But, following dozens of towns and municipalities, it has since announced
support for the declaration.
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