Shining a Light on Feminist Foreign Policy
CanWaCH Gender Equality Blog Series In a 2015 interview with the New Yorker, feminist and activist Gloria Steinem lamented about being asked the question “Who will you pass the torch […]
Month: September 2018
Lead On Canada: Gender Equality and Youth Empowerment
To celebrate Canada’s inaugural Gender Equality Week, we sat down with Diviya Leonard, the 2018 recipient of CanWaCH’s gender equality award to discuss feminism, Women Deliver 2019, and finding your passions. Diviya is […]
Canada Celebrates Gender Equality Week at UNGA
On Monday, September 24, 2018, CanWaCH kicked off Canada’s inaugural Gender Equality Week with a celebration at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. This event brought together Canadian […]
Four Things We Heard About Contraception
Contraception is something that many Canadians take for granted. Whether you’re running to the walk-in clinic to get a prescription for birth control pills, or picking up a box of […]
Grand Challenges Canada Announces New Co-CEOs to Lead Organization Forward
TORONTO, September 19, 2018 – On behalf of the Board of Directors of Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), Chair Guylaine Saucier today announced that Ms. […]
Civil society statement on the occasion of the Women Foreign Ministers Meeting
Civil society statement on the occasion of the Women Foreign Ministers Meeting 21-22 September 2018, Montreal, Quebec, Canada We, the undersigned organizations, call on Women Foreign Ministers gathered in Montreal, […]
Gender Equality Matters
CanWaCH Gender Equality Blog Series I’m excited to launch CanWaCH’s Gender Equality Blog during Gender Equality Week September 23-29, 2018. Gender equality matters! When gender equality is built into the […]
September 2018 Newsletter
Mark your calendars – join us for the CanWaCH AGM on November 20, 2018! This year, CanWaCH is partnering with Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH) to host its Annual […]
New Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development Appointed
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed, Kamal Khera, Member of Parliament for Brampton, as the new Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development. The appointment was part of several […]
