Gender Equity

4 Minutes

Women and Gender World

Cuba’s revolutionary Family Code a beacon for equality rights

PV March 2, 2023

By Helen Kennedy In January, a labour delegation from Canada met with two Cuban lawyers in Holguin, to discuss the implementation of their country’s new Family Code. Maité Rodriguez Tamayo and Liliana Arévalo Domínguez...

6 Minutes

Canada Women and Gender

The campaign for quality, universal, public childcare intensifies

PV March 2, 2023

By Helen Kennedy Ask anyone in the women’s movement what they believe is the most important program to ensure women’s equality, and they more often than not will reply, “childcare.” The federal government’s announcement...

4 Minutes

Canada Women and Gender

Dorise Nielsen: groundbreaking communist MP in Canada, people’s hero in China

PV October 26, 2022

By Mike Wu Norman Bethune is a well-known figure in the history of Canada–China relations. But there is another legendary figure: Dorise Nielsen, the first Member of Parliament from the Communist Party of Canada,...

2 Minutes

Women and Gender World

Iran in turmoil over killing

PV September 29, 2022

By Jane Green “The murder of Mahsa Amini is the trigger that has set off an unprecedented massive nationwide protest across Iran”, Jamshid Ahmadi, Assistant General Secretary of the Committee for the Defence of...