Equality work done in Africa

Executive Director and Founder of Equality Effect, Fiona Sampson was in Winnipeg to deliver one of the keynote address at LEAF Manitoba's 22nd Annual Person's Day Breakfast at the Convention centre.  Mary Eberts was the other keynote speaker. Both speakers were dynamic and substantial.
The equality effect uses human rights law to improve the lives of women and girls. Fiona originally conceived of the equality effect in 2005, in collaboration with friends and colleagues from Africa at the Osgoode Hall Law School graduate program.
Fiona shared some poignant stories of young girls being raped by the people who should be protecting them e.g. their family members and even the police. These stories are heart-wrenching. In 2012, women and girls must not be facing these horrors. The world needs to stop and take notice. We have to remove the wool of a life of comfort and extravagance and look beyond that to see and contribute to this struggle. None of us is free until we all are free said Harriet Tubman.

Mary Eberts is well known around the world for her groundbreaking work on behalf of women’s equality, Aboriginal rights, and the Charter.
She has practiced law for over 35 years, as a partner in a large firm, and the founder of her own small specialized litigation firm. In 2010, she was appointment Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights at
the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan.
In 1980, Mary was retained by the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women to provide advice on the draft Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and became deeply involved in the improvement of the Charter’s guarantees of equality. She is a co-founder of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), and acted as counsel in some of its early cases.
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 http://theequalityeffect.org