Aboriginal Portal
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NOTICE
The Aboriginal Canada Portal closed February 12, 2013. The Digital Aboriginals of True North Turtle Island have intervened. Please visit this web page for more information.
Women – New Brunswick
Aboriginal Organizations
- Committee for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women (CAAW)
- Provides information on the Gathering Voices process, which is meant to identify what has worked for Wabanaki women over the years to maintain the cohesion of the families and communities.
Health and Social Services
- Gignoo Transition House
- Strives to eliminate the cycle of violence in their First Nation Communities, through programs and services that meet the need of Aboriginal women and children in crisis, that are culturally appropriate.
- Source: Human Development Council – Community Services Database
Justice and Women's Rights
- Creating Healthy Personal Relationships – An Information Booklet for Aboriginal Women
- This page provides an information booklet and useful links designed to help Aboriginal woman who find themselves in an unhealthy or violent relationship.
- Source: Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick
Outstanding Women
- Lovelace, Sandra
- Sandra Lovelace is an advocate of Native women's rights.Thanks to her successful appeal to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, Native women in Canada no longer lose their status under the Indian Act through marriage to a non-Native man.
- Source: The Senate of Canada
