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Brief - Turning Equality in Law into de facto Equality – Towards a Second Government Action Plan for Gender Equality

This policy briefing was presented by the Femmes Autochtones du Québec/Quebec Native Women (FAQNW) in response to the invitation, issued by the National Assembly of Quebec’s Commission des relations avec les citoyens, to submit recommendations during the parliamentary proceedings leading to the Quebec government’s proposed second Action Plan presented in the consultation document (in French only) entitled Pour que l’égalité de droit devienne une égalité de fait – Vers un deuxième plan d’action gouvernemental pour l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes.

Credit: Femmes Autochtones du Québec/Quebec Native Women (FAQNW) 

 

NOTE: The FAQNW’s members consist of women from ten of Quebec’s eleven Aboriginal nations, including the Abenaki, the Algonquin, the Attikamek, the Huron-Wendat, the Innu, the Eeyou, the Malécite, the Mig’maq, the Mohawk, the Naskapi, and from various Aboriginal groups from the rest of Canada who live in urban areas of Quebec.  

 

Date: 2011

 

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