LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund)
@LEAFNational
Advancing substantive gender equality rights through litigation, law reform, & public education since 1985.
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http://leaf.ca 25-03-2010 15:27:50
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'Survivors should be able to exercise agency & choice in whether or not to have publication ban on their identity' Pam Hrick of LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) discusses changes to 🇨🇦's Criminal Code via Zosia Bielski molly hayes
Hrick's #InformedOps bit.ly/2pJQnsr theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
Many sexual assault survivors in Canada are unable to access restorative & transformative justice, and not just because these programs aren't well-funded.
Learn more about #AvenuesToJustice and barriers to making them accessible in Canada:
leaf.ca/project/avenue…
Over 940,000 Canadians have faced sexual assault. @leafnational latest report explores how Restoratⅳe and Tra㎱formatⅳe Justice (RJ/TJ) can offer more effectⅳe,survⅳor-focused paths to heal㏌g and justice.Check out the report here: ow.ly/eEWB50PZ3Ti #AvenuesToJustice
Thanks to Rosel Kim 김지현 for speaking to me about one of the biggest challenges of working at a public interest organization: saying no. As a senior staff lawyer LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund), Kim manages cases and law reform submissions. #Top25MostInfluentialLawyers #top25mostinfluentiallawyers2023
In Canada, women and gender-diverse people with disabilities are poorer than their male & non-disabled counterparts.
The #CanadaDisabilityBenefit is currently being designed. Fill out Disability Without Poverty's survey to have your say on what the CDB should look like! 👇
At LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund), we’re hiring a Senior Development Officer to lead and grow our ambitious fund development program! The application deadline is October 30.
Please consider applying and/or sharing with your networks of progressive, feminist fundraisers. afptoronto.org/job/senior-dev…
I’m so excited for the Avenues to Justice project to be launched today.
This report will provide the foundation of LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund)’s advocacy to increase access to restorative justice and transformative justice for sexual violence in the months and years to come.
LEAF's Pam Hrick & رکسانا / Roxana on restorative justice for sexual violence:
'Survivors need more #AvenuesToJustice ; members of marginalized communities have been saying this for years. But that’s not possible in the current legal system.' The Globe and Mail
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) & Luke's Place collaborated to develop a policy brief on criminalization of coercive control for Canadian Women's Foundation that points out the potential harm to survivors of such an approach: canadianwomen.org/wp-content/upl…