OAITH is a provincial coalition founded by women’s shelter advocates in 1977. Membership includes primarily first stage emergency shelters for abused women and their children, as well as some second stages housing programs and community-based women’s service organizations.
The Association works with member agencies to educate and promote change in all areas that abused women and their children identify as important to their freedom from violence. OAITH operates from an integrated, feminist, anti-racist/ anti-oppression perspective on violence against women. We recognize that violence and abuse against women and children occurs as a result of unequal power and status of women and children in society. More...
Cuts coming and everyone must do their part, warns Dalton McGuinty
Toronto Star January 5, 2012
Doctors, professors, teachers, and others on the public payroll will have do their bit in the new age of austerity, warns Premier Dalton McGuinty. “We’re all going to have a role to play,” the premier told reporters here in his first public event of the New Year.
Carol Goar Toronto Star January 4, 2012
Three days before the House of Commons rose for its Christmas recess, a parliamentary committee quietly tabled a shocking report. It was called Ending Violence against Aboriginal Women and Girls. But it wasn’t a plan of action. It wasn’t even a commitment to do better. It was a self-congratulatory compendium of existing programs.
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Related government documents—Provincial
Breaking the Cycle: The Third Progress Report. Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy 2011 Report January 2012
Related government documents—Federal
Ending Violence against Aboriginal Women and Girls. Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. December 2011.
Women in Canada: A Gender-Based Statistical Report. Sixth Edition, December 2011. This report contains a number of specific area reports, some of which were previously released.
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