Links - Equity Groups

Equity Groups

ARCNet
Aboriginal Resource Centre: links to Canadian Aboriginal businesses and organizations.

Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia
Not specifically a women's site, but see the Profiles of Achievement and Traditional Lifetime Stories links at this page for some interesting herstory of individual African-Nova Scotian women.

Careerplace
Sponsored by the Native Women's Association of Canada, Careerplace is a site for Aboriginal women and employers. This site also has links to a number of other Aboriginal web sites.

Centre for Diverse Visible Cultures (CDVC)
The Centre for Visible Cultures is a community-based, non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian provincial organization located in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a provincial organization promoting the well-being of all Canadians, immigrants and refugees, especially from diverse visible cultures residing in Nova Scotia.

DAWN Canada (DisAbled Women'sNetwork)
DAWN Canada: DisAbled Women's Network Canada is a national, cross disability organization of women with disabilities in Canada. We are affiliated with Provincial DAWN groups and other disabled women's groups in Canada and internationally. The association focuses on research, defining the needs and concerns of women with disabilities and designing programs to address those needs and concerns.

Egale Canada
EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere) advances equality and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people, and their families, across Canada.

IWK Health Centrein Halifax is now providing a Specialty Clinic for women with disabilities. The clinic provides services such as assessment and screening (such as pap smears); teaching (such as breast self-examination); counselling (such as menopause, premenstrual syndrome); and family planning. Staffed by IWK registered nurses, a social worker and a dietician. Doctor's referrals are not necessary. For an appointment, or for more information about the clinic, call the IWK Health Centre at (902) 420-6755

Lesbians
This site is intended as a community resource for lesbians in all Maritime provinces.

Native Women's Association of Canada
NWAC works for social, economic, cultural and of First Nations and Metis women with First Nation and Canadian societies.

NSNET : The Community Organization Network
represents community organizations in Nova Scotia that help people with health and ability challenges. See this site for a searchable province-wide directory of organizations dealing with a very wide range of health and ability issues

NSRAP - Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project
NSRAP was formed after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Nova Scotia ceased to exist in 1995. NSRAP represents itself as "a voice for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirited, transsexual and transgendered (gay) people of the province." (from NSRAP's web site)

On-Reserve Matrimonial Real Property
This site, from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, has information and updates on the marital property rights of on-reserve Aboriginal women. Your rights are different if you are living on-reserve. Find out more here.

Pauktuutit
Inuit Women's Association
Pauktuutit is the national non-profit association representing all Inuit women in Canada. Its mandate is to foster a greater awareness of the needs of Inuit women, and to encourage their participation in community, regional and national concerns in relation to social, cultural and economic development.

reachAbility
reachAbility (formerly Reach Nova Scotia) is an organization dedicated to ensuring quality legal and social representation to persons living with disabilities. While not specifically a women's site, it is an important one for Nova Scotians with disabilities.

Sisters in Spirit Campaign
On March 22, 2004, the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) will launch the Sisters in Spirit Campaign-- a one-year campaign -- to lobby the federal government to establish a $10 million fund for research and education related to violence against Aboriginal women.

Women of Color Web
Although the Internet has become an invaluable source of information, there is very little content available by and/or about women of color. This site aims to address the concerns of women of color by facilitating access to writings that will broaden discussion on gender, rights and reproduction, taking into account the views and concerns of women of color.

Women of Various Countries, Ethnicities, Races, and Other Group Identities
This site aims to address the concerns of women of different races and ethnicities by facilitating access to a collection of sources that will broaden discussion on gender and rights.

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