Aboriginal Women and Bill-C31: An Issue Paper
Alternate Title
National Aboriginal Women's Summit, 2007
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Purpose of act was to eliminate sexual discrimination within the Indian Act and make it congruent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Came about because of United Nations Human Rights Commission's ruling that First Nations women were being discriminated against due to loss of status through marriage to non-First Nations men.