Ten Years of Ontario’s Fair-Access Law: Has Access to Regulated Professions Improved for Internationally Educated Individuals?
Written by Nuzhat Jafri, Executive Director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW), this chapter appears in Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses […]
Islamic Perspective on Engaging Men and Boys to End Violence in the Family
Project Background This is part of a 3-year project, funded by Status of Women Canada, with the goal to engage men and boys from Muslim communities to end violence in […]
Building Safer Communities Together – Toolkit
The Atlantic Chapter of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women is proud to share the release of a new resource:“Building Safer Communities Together: Preventing Gender-Based Violence through Community-Led, Culturally Grounded […]
At My Mother’s Feet
Edited by Sadia Zaman Purchase this book here. At My Mother’s Feet reveals that we’ve constantly been fed half-truths by media and our own prejudices. While Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist […]
Women Working with Immigrant Women, 1974-2002
Download: Women Working with Immigrant Women, 1974-2002 Identifies the educational, health care, labour and social needs of immigrant and refugee women and women of colour and initiates the development of […]
Voices of Muslim Women: A Community Research Project – 2002
This is a community participatory research project that investigates the effects of September 11th and its aftermath on Canadian Muslim Women. These results demonstrate that the everyday lives of Canadian […]
The Reception of Muslim Family Law in Western Liberal States
Download: The Reception of Muslim Family Law in Western Liberal States Issues of personal status are of crucial importance for Muslim women because they often remain the last bastion of […]
Muslim Women Beyond Perceptions – Over Educated and Under Employed
Muslim women in Canada are diverse and distinct, one from the other, yet stereotypes and myths about Muslim women abound in the popular media and within the larger Canadian society. […]
Muslim Women’s Equality Rights in the Justice System: Gender, Religion and Pluralism
On April 9, 2005, the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) hosted a symposium entitled Muslim Women’s Equality Rights in the Justice System: Gender, Religion and Pluralism. This event was […]
Reading Rights: A Woman’s Guide to the Law in Canada
Reading Rights is the first convenient guide to Canadian laws that grant and protect rights and freedoms for women at work, within the family, and in the courts. In simple, non-legal […]