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May 22, 2026

Submission for Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the Upcoming Federal Budget 

In the global context of economic uncertainty and rising anti-feminism, renewed investments in women’s rights and gender equality are even more ...

November 5, 2025

CRIAW-ICREF’s Initial Reaction to Budget 2025

Sustained WAGE funding vital to advancing women’s rights, but gaps remain in Budget 2025 Anishinaabe Territory/OTTAWA: Budget 2025’s inclusion of ...

October 30, 2025

CRIAW-ICREF Welcomes Commitment to WAGE Funding in Budget 2025

Budget 2025’s Commitment to Gender Equality is Welcomed at Critical Time of Economic Insecurity Sustained funding opens door for action to ...

July 28, 2025

Joint Statement on WAGE’s Budget

Dear Prime Minister: Gender Equality is not Optional Ottawa, ON – Globally, women’s rights and gender equality are under attack from regressive ...

April 29, 2025

New Liberal government must take three timely actions for women

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement on the Federal Election by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women New Liberal government ...

March 14, 2025

Joint News Release on Minister of WAGE

Canadian Government Eliminates Minister for Women and Gender Equality Amid United Nations Women’s Rights Summit For Immediate Release New York ...

February 11, 2025

Regressive movements growing and becoming more mainstreamed, fueling dangerous backlash

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – New research from the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women/L’Institut canadien de ...

November 29, 2024

CRIAW-ICREF stands in solidarity with CUPW

Sent to President Jan Simpson on November 29, 2024, on behalf of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women / Institut canadien ...

November 17, 2023

Feminist Organizations Joint Appeal for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza

Submitted to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on November 17, 2023, by the Canadian Council of Muslim Women on behalf of a coalition of feminist, ...

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