Media from the Montreal Action Committee of Women of Diverse Origins and the Forum on Women's Activism in Constitutional and Democractic Reform.
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This collection of media on CitizenShift was created for International Women's Day. See women take to the podium and demand action, internationally. Combining materials from conferences of the Montreal Action Committee of Women of Diverse Origins and from the Forum on Women's Activism in Constitutional and Democractic Reform, women of action take a stand on inclusion in the democratic process, on combating violence, on eradicating poverty and a whole lot more.
Hailing from diverse ethnic backgrounds from Canada and around the world, in solidarity, women work to affect change. These are their stories.
Centre for International Studies and Cooperation/Uniterra
In everyday life, [women] face many forms of discrimination based on sex, caste or ethnic origin in addition to being isolated from basic social services...during a seminar before and after the Women’s Trek for Peace and Development, held by CECI in March 2008, women and men working in development in Kathmandu spoke about their strategies of partnership with remote villages and women from mountain regions shared the issues they were up against and some of the solutions they were employing.
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