URL: http://section15.ca/

Description: Women’s rights in Canada are enshrined in section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which came into force on April 17, 1985. The struggles for women’s rights, in public or in private, big or small, started much earlier, and they will extend into the future. The features on this web site tell the stories of women, as individuals or in groups, who saw something that needed to be done, and got it done. Those stories connect, encourage and teach us to continue to make change that addresses the historical and systemic discrimination experienced by women and girls.

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Subject:   Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,  Women’s rights in Canada,  Section 15

URL: http://www.coolwomen.ca/

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Title: For Our Sisters, For Our Daughters

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpStxeS39Ik

Description: On February 14, 1981, over 1,000 women met on Parliament Hill in the nation’s capital to tell the government that Canada’s proposed new constitution was not good enough for women. The government had refused to support such a meeting, so on 3 weeks’ notice women organized it themselves. Known as the Ad Hoc Committee on Women and the Constitution of Canada, the resolutions passed by the women told the government how to strengthen the equality provisions. As the narrator to the film says, they gave a big “heave-ho” to the status quo. The government agreed to add s. 28 to the Constitution of Canada, which came into force on April 17, 1982: “Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons.”

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Subject:   Women’s History,  Women’s Human Rights,  Women’s Rights,  Documentary,  Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,  Section 15,  Women’s rights in Canada