OUR MISSION The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), founded in 1974, is a not-for-profit feminist organization that works to achieve substantive equality and the realization of human rights for all women in Canada through legal education, research, strategic intervention, coalition work, and feminist law reform advocacy, particularly at the federal level. [...] NAWL has a 49-year history of working on its own and in collaboration with other women’s equality-seeking organizations to impact law and public policy on a wide range of issues, achieving several notable feminist law reform victories in Canada, including: • The adoption of sections 15 and 28 in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms • Amendments to the Criminal Code regarding sexual assault laws,. [...] THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN AND THE LAW 10 LEGAL BRIEFS AND TESTIMONIES In the last year, NAWL effectively responded to legislative proposals, significant legal cases, and other national issues that could advance or hinder the realization of substantive equality. [...] Despite the purported objective of the amendments to protect the public – particularly women and children – NAWL’s feminist critiques of Bill C-28 raised serious and lasting concerns with respect to the practical application of the law and the justice owed to victims of intoxicated violence. [...] NAWL organized an informational townhall, inviting the feminist sector to attend and learn about the technical aspects of the bill, to dispel the rampant disinformation circulating in the debate, and to invite women’s and feminist organizations to join a coalition.
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