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NAWL's Big Impacts

For nearly half a century, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) has played a vital role in the women’s movement advocating relentlessly to ensure Canada’s laws promote substantive equality for all women. Applying an intersectional and gender lens NAWL has worked to dismantle gender bias, systemic discrimination and the oppression women experience because of the patriarchal and colonialist underpinnings of Canada’s law. In the 1980s, NAWL fought to have a husband’s immunity in rape cases removed from the law by challenging the myth that husbands could not rape their wives. In the 1990s, NAWL successfully advocated for the adoption of Canada’s first rape shield bill, a law that protects women from being questioned on the witness stand about their past sexual histories. When that bill was struck down, NAWL immediately fought back. Its advocacy helped shape and bring into being a new rape shield law, creating a safer, more equitable space for women to come forward and seek justice. By 2000, NAWL was advocating for the substantive equality rights of individuals in the LGBTQ community and fighting for the equality of women in the workforce, against workplace sexual harassment, and for pay equity. In the 2010s, NAWL influenced crucial reform to the Divorce Act, particularly for women and children facing family violence. Most recently, NAWL has called on the government to ensure a far-reaching gendered COVID-19 pandemic response including obtaining an immediate commitment to financially stabilize the women’s rights sector, has advocated for mandatory sexual assault training for judges, and has pushed to ensure anti-choice organizations do not receive government support. At the same time, NAWL was the first feminist organization to come before the Supreme Court of Canada urging strong action against climate change, a crisis which disproportionately affects women and girls. Today, NAWL continues to fight alongside feminists, like you, to prevent losing past gains and to continue moving forward for the rights of all women. Plenty of work remains to be done, and like you, we at NAWL know first-hand the ongoing need to advance feminist law reform. NAWL aims to take strong feminist action for climate justice, to tackle issues such as ending gender-based violence, to advocate for access to abortion across Canada and to end the practice in Canada of forced & coerced sterilization against Indigenous women and other marginalized and vulnerable women. NAWL’s success is due to the commitment of its people. From supporters like you, to our staff, volunteers, and the equality-seeking organizations we have the honour of working with, we have built a strong feminist network of students, lawyers, activists, lawmakers, and judges who are all working towards substantive equality for women, in all their diversity. Together we have accomplished a lot, and together we will continue to protect the advancements that we have worked so hard to achieve. Powerful anti-rights groups, changes in governments and global challenges can shift the lens away from women’s rights. Like you, NAWL is here to make sure that lawmakers stay focused on a fair and just future for all women! Support NAWL at https://interland3.donorperfect.net/w...