{"id":7614,"date":"2015-07-24T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2020-10-26T05:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T09:24:44","slug":"leaf-notes-the-un-human-rights-committees-concerns-about-canadas-persisting-inequalities","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/leaf-notes-the-un-human-rights-committees-concerns-about-canadas-persisting-inequalities\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAF notes the UN Human Rights Committee\u2019s concerns about Canada\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0persisting inequalities\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On July 23, 2015, the UN Human Rights Committee released its concluding observations<\/a> in their periodic review of Canada\u2019s human rights record include concerns about \u201cpersisting inequalities\u201d in Canada. They particularly note the ongoing pay equity gap, the lack of women in leadership positions, the grave situation of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, persistent sex discrimination in the Indian Act<\/i>, a failure to adequately address violence against women, and continued problems with access to justice. For more on the concluding observations with respect to Indigenous women\u2019s rights, see the below press release from FAFIA. For more on the Committee\u2019s observations regarding the broader concerns about Canada\u2019s human rights record, see this release<\/a>. LEAF contributed to the shadow report submitted to the Committee by FAFIA, available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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United Nations Human Rights Committee calls for national action on murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Ottawa, July 23, 2015) In its Concluding Observations<\/a> issued today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee called on Canada to take immediate, co ordinated action on murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls. The Human Rights Committee calls on Canada to conduct a national public inquiry, as recommended by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) which issued its inquiry report on murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women in March 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelagh Day, FAFIA spokesperson, said, \u201cThe Human Rights Committee has now added its voice to the many international human rights experts that are calling on Canada to establish a national public inquiry into the violence. Governments must act together to address this human rights crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Committee also urged Canada to eliminate all remaining sex discrimination in the status registration provisions of the Indian Act. For 150 years, the Indian Act has treated male Indians and female Indians differently with respect to their ability to transmit status to their children and grandchildren. This discrimination continues to affect Indian women and their descendants. Sharon McIvor, a FAFIA representative and the plaintiff in the historic McIvor v Canada Charter challenge, said, \u201cCanada has been told that it is obliged under international law to ensure that Indian women enjoy all their rights on an equal footing with men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 7 and 8 July in Geneva, the Committee reviewed Canada\u2019s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights<\/em> for the first time since 2005. FAFIA representatives attended the review in Geneva and submitted a report<\/a> on women\u2019s civil and political rights in Canada, as well as a joint-report<\/a> with the Native Women\u2019s Association of Canada on missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Concluding Observations address many outstanding human rights issues in Canada, including Canada\u2019s failed relationship with Aboriginal peoples; violence against women, the gender pay gap, discrimination against migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers; the silencing of civil society; Canada\u2019s obligations to regulate the Canadian extractive industry; Bill C-51; and the need for an inter-governmental framework for implementing the concluding observations of United Nations treaty bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information, please contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelagh Day, Chair FAFIA Human Rights Committee Tel: (604) 872-0750<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Cameron, Chair, FAFIA Steering Committee Tel: (613) 562-5800 x3328<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) is an alliance of more than sixty Canadian women\u2019s organizations founded following the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. FAFIA\u2019s central goal is to ensure that Canadian governments respect, protect and fulfill the commitments international human rights treaties and agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Comit\u00e9 des droits de l\u2019homme des Nations Unies demande au Canada de prendre des mesures nationales dans le dossier des meurtres et disparitions de femmes et de filles autochtones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Ottawa, 23 juillet 2015) Dans ses Observations finales<\/a> publi\u00e9es aujourd\u2019hui, le Comit\u00e9 des droits de l\u2019homme des Nations Unies demande au Canada de prendre des mesures imm\u00e9diates dans le cas des meurtres et des disparitions de femmes et de filles autochtones. Le Comit\u00e9 des droits de l\u2019homme demande plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment au Canada de mener une enqu\u00eate publique nationale, tel que recommand\u00e9 par le Comit\u00e9 pour l\u2019\u00e9limination de toute discrimination \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des femmes des Nations Unies (CEDEF), qui a publi\u00e9 en mars 2015 son rapport d\u2019enqu\u00eate sur les meurtres et les disparitions de femmes autochtones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selon Shelagh Day, porte-parole de l\u2019AFAI, \u00abLe Comit\u00e9 des droits de l\u2019homme ajoute sa voix \u00e0 celles des nombreux sp\u00e9cialistes internationaux des droits de la personne qui demandent au Canada la tenue d\u2019une enqu\u00eate pancanadienne sur cette violence. Tous les paliers de gouvernement doivent agir de concert pour rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 cette grave crise des droits humains\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Comit\u00e9 a \u00e9galement press\u00e9 le Canada d\u2019\u00e9liminer toute discrimination sexosp\u00e9cifique encore pr\u00e9sente dans les dispositions concernant le statut d\u2019inscription dans la Loi sur les Indiens<\/em>. Depuis 150 ans, la Loi sur les Indiens<\/em> traite les hommes et les femmes diff\u00e9remment quant \u00e0 leur capacit\u00e9 de transmettre leur statut \u00e0 leurs enfants et petits-enfants. Cette discrimination continue toujours d\u2019affecter les Indiennes et leur descendance. Sharon McIvor, repr\u00e9sentante de l\u2019AFAI et demanderesse dans la contestation constitutionnelle historique McIvor c Canada, <\/em>a d\u00e9clar\u00e9, \u00abLe Canada s\u2019est fait dire qu\u2019il est l\u00e9galement tenu, aux termes du droit international, de s\u2019assurer que les Indiennes puissent jouir de tous leurs droits sur un pied d\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 avec les Indiens\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De plus, les 7 et 8 juillet \u00e0 Gen\u00e8ve et pour la premi\u00e8re fois depuis 2005, le Comit\u00e9 s\u2019est pench\u00e9 sur le respect par le Canada du Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques<\/em>. Des repr\u00e9sentantes de l\u2019AFAI ont assist\u00e9 \u00e0 cet examen et ont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un rapport<\/a> sur les droits civils et politiques au Canada, de m\u00eame qu\u2019un rapport conjoint<\/a> pr\u00e9par\u00e9 avec l\u2019Association des femmes autochtones du Canada sur les femmes et les filles disparues et assassin\u00e9es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les Observations finales de ce Comit\u00e9 abordent plusieurs probl\u00e8mes en suspens en mati\u00e8re de droits de la personne au Canada, y compris l\u2019\u00e9chec de la relation entre le Canada et les peuples autochtones; la violence faite aux femmes, l\u2019\u00e9cart salarial entre hommes et femmes, la discrimination \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des migrants, des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et des demandeurs d\u2019asile; la r\u00e9duction au silence de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile; les obligations du Canada en mati\u00e8re de r\u00e9glementation de l\u2019industrie d\u2019extraction des ressources; le projet de loi C-51; et le besoin d\u2019un cadre intergouvernemental de mise en \u0153uvre des observations finales des organes de suivi des trait\u00e9s des Nations Unies.
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Pour plus d\u2019information, veuillez contacter:
Shelagh Day, pr\u00e9sidente, comit\u00e9 des droits de la personne de l\u2019AFAI
Tel: (604) 872-0750
Angela Cameron, pr\u00e9sidente, comit\u00e9 de direction de l\u2019AFAI
Tel: (613) 230-0973<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019Alliance canadienne f\u00e9ministe pour l\u2019action internationale (AFAI) <\/strong>est une alliance de plus de 60 organisations de femmes fond\u00e9e dans la foul\u00e9e de la Quatri\u00e8me Conf\u00e9rence mondiale sur les femmes de Beijing en 1995. Le principal objectif de l\u2019AFAI consiste \u00e0 s\u2019assurer que les gouvernements canadiens respectent, prot\u00e8gent et remplissent leurs engagements envers les femmes aux termes des trait\u00e9s internationaux des droits de la personne qu\u2019ils ont ratifi\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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