Registry of Lobbyists
Version 1 of 1 (2006-03-16 to 2006-12-22) was submitted prior to the Lobbying Act coming into force on July 2, 2008. Due to different information requirements at that time, the registration is presented in the following format.
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Feminist Alliance for International Action
704-151 Slater Street Ottawa, ON K1P 5H3 Canada |
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| Telephone number: | 613-232-9505 Ext.: 223 | ||||
| Fax number: | 613-822-5089 | ||||
| Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: | Bethany Sutton, Director of Operations | ||||
| Description of the organization's activities: | The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) is a dynamic coalition of over 50 Canadian women's equality-seeking and related organizations. FAFIA's mandate is to further women's equality in Canada through domestic implementation of its' international human rights commitments. FAFIA's goals are to: (1) make links between international instruments and agreements and domestic policy-making; (2) provide education and information regarding Canada's human rights obligations and compliance with them to Canadian women's organizations, women and other members of the public; (3) support the capacity of women's organizations to work at the international level; and (4) hold Canadian governments accountable to the commitments to women that they have made under international human rights treaties and agreements, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA). | ||||
| Organization's membership or classes of membership: | FAFIA Partners (Related equality-seeking organizations)FAFIA Members (Equality-seeking women's organizations)FAFIA Friends (Equality-seeking individuals) | ||||
| Was the organization funded in whole or in part by any domestic or foreign government institution in the last completed financial year? | Yes | ||||
| End date of the organization's last completed financial year: | 2005-03-31 | ||||
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| Name: | Nancy Peckford |
| Position title: | Director of Programmes |
| Public offices held: | Yes |
| Federal departments or organizations which have been or will be communicated with during the course of the undertaking: | Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Finance Canada (FIN), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC), Health Canada (HC), Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), Industry Canada, Justice Canada (JC), Members of the House of Commons, Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG), Privy Council Office (PCO), Status of Women Canada (SWC), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS) | ||||||||
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Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
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Grass-roots communication, Informal communications, Meetings, Presentations, Telephone calls, Written communications, whether in hard copy or electronic format | ||||||||
| Subject Matter: Areas of Concern: | Aboriginal Affairs, Constitutional Issues, Education, Employment and Training, Health, Immigration, Industry, International Relations, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, Labour, Taxation and Finance | ||||||||
| Subject Matter: Retrospective: | Implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); Pay Equity; Federal Budget (Women's Program Funding, tax system implications on women, program funding implications on women, gender budget analysis); Canada Social Transfer; UN Beijing Platform for Action; Gender Based Analysis (GBA); Bill C-31 (Aboriginal women's rights to pass on status to descendants); First Nations women's matrimonial property rights; funding for civil and legal aid; funding to women's centres, shelters and transition homes; Live-in-Caregiver and Domestic Programs; status of women and children who had been trafficked; Parliamentary Committee on the Status of Women; ICCPR; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights implementation; Women's poverty and income supports; Employment Insurance; Housing rights; Impacts of trade liberalization on women; | ||||||||
| Subject Matter: Prospective: | Implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); Pay Equity; Federal Budget (Women's Program Funding, tax system implications on women, program funding implications on women, gender budget analysis); Canada Social Transfer; UN Beijing Platform for Action implementation; Gender Based Analysis (GBA); Bill C-31 (Aboriginal women's rights to pass on status to descendants); First Nations women's matrimonial property rights; funding for civil and legal aid; funding to women's centres, shelters and transition homes; Live-in-Caregiver and Domestic Programs; status of women and children who had been trafficked; Parliamentary Committee on the Status of Women; Women's poverty and income supports; Employment Insurance; Housing rights; Impacts of trade liberalization on women; National Child Care program; | ||||||||
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