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Nancy's Very Own Foundation

Archive-It Partner Since: Oct, 2019

Organization Type: NGOs

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Nancy’s Very Own Foundation is a Canadian private foundation established by the Honourable Nancy Ruth, CM in 1984. Nancy Ruth, who served as a member of the Senate of Canada from 2005 to 2017, is a feminist, activist and philanthropist. She has campaigned for increasing dedicated charitable giving to women and girls. The Foundation has used the Internet to make the history of women, and women’s activism, in Canada visible and lively, to teach about the value and importance of women’s lived experiences, and to urge the use of a women’s lens in making public policy and the elimination of systemic discrimination against women in all their diversity.

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Women's History and Activism

Archived since: May, 2020

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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.

Subject:   Section 15 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Women's Rights in Canada Feminism,  Discrimination against women ,  Women’s human rights Constitutional equality rights Women’s organizing Women’s Rights Women’s Human Rights Women’s History

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