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the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) is founded.
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section 15, the main equality rights section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, comes into effect on April 17.
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Manitoba becomes the first province in Canada to pass pay equity legislation for its public-sector employees.
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section 12(l) (b) of the Indian Act is repealed, allowing Indian women to marry non-Indian men without losing their Indian status.
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the DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) is founded. DAWN offers support, information, and resources to women with disabilities.
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l'R des centres de femmes du Québec, an association of women's centres, is founded.
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the federal government launches the Court Challenges Program, a $9-million fund designed to help individuals and organizations launch or participate in test case litigation concerning the equality rights provisions of the Charter. The Program is cancelled in 1992 amid protests from equality-seeking groups.
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the federal government promises to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to end discrimination against lesbians and gay men. In the dying days of 1992 it finally tables a proposal roundly denounced by human rights activists as inadequate. In the interim it fights all cases brought forward by lesbians and gay men.
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governmental delegates gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to debate and ratify the United Nations Foward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women document. A parallel conference, Forum '85, brings together 13,000 women from around the globe to assess women's progress and chart strategies for the future.
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