Imprisonment of Women

• See The Human Rights in Action Project

Position Papers & Submissions

Sexual Exploitation, Prostitution and Trafficking

• Resolution of CAEFS: Sexual Exploitation, Prostitution and Trafficking
  2008

• Resolution of CAEFS: Sexual Exploitation, Prostitution and Trafficking
  May 24, 2008

Correctional Service of Canada

• CAEFS Submission to the CSC Review Panel
  June 10, 2007

• Position of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) Regarding the Exchange of Services Agreement (ESA) Between the Correctional Services of Canada (CSC) and the Government of British Columbia
  October 15, 2000

Submissions to Government

• Submissions of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies – Five Year Review of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act
  Kim Pate – 1998

• CAEFS’ Objections to Proposed Prisoner Publication Bill C-220 
  Submission of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, in opposition to Bill C-220 – 1997

Youth

• The Jettisoning of Juvenile Justice? The Story of K
  Kim Pate, Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20 no. 3, Fall 2000

Human Rights

• 50 Years of Canada’s International Commitment to Human Rights – Millstones in Correcting Corrections for Federally Sentenced Women
  Kim Pate – September 1998

General

• Recent Issues Impacting Women’s Imprisonment in Canada
  CAEFS – 1996

Community Release Options

• Release Housing Program for Women
  A Supportive Housing Strategy for prisoners released from the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women to British Columbia communities – October 1996

Classification

• The Risky Business of Risk Assessment
  By Kim Pate

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Press Releases

• Canada Must Correct Appalling Record of Discrimination Against Indigenous Women
  Press Release – December 14, 2011 (Ottawa)

• When Strip Searches Are Sexual Assaults
  Press Release – Kim Pate, The Hill Times – October, 2011 (Ottawa)

• Abolishing Sanctioned Torture in Canada
  Press Release – March 31 2011 (Ottawa)
  External Link
• Letter to Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety
  Abolishing Sanctioned Torture in Canada – March 31, 2011

• Correcting Corrections Must Be A Priority
  Press Release – March 3, 2009

• National Women’s Group Rejects the Notion of an Omnibus Bill
  Press Release – October 17, 2007 (Ottawa)

• 10 Years and Waiting
  Press Release – May 9, 2006 (Ottawa)

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Commission of Inquiry into certain events at the Prison for Women in Kingston

• See the Prison for Women | The Arbour Inquiry.

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United Nations 

UN Human Rights Committee: Canada’s 4th & 5th Reports

Convention Against Torture

• Submission of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Examining Canada’s 4th and 5th Reports Regarding the Convention Against Torture

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

• Submission of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Examining Canada’s 5th Report Regarding the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Bangkok Rules

• Developing International Norms and Standards to Meet the Needs Of Criminalized and Imprisoned Women
  Kim Pate, Executive Director CAEFS (Canada) and Debbie Kilroy, Director, Sisters Inside (Australia) – April 2005
• Prisons: Canada’s Default Response to Poverty, Homelessness and Mental Illness – Especially for Women 
  11th United Nations Congress on Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention, Bangkok –  April 22, 2005 
  Prepared by Kim Pate
• Letter to the Prime Minister
  Kim Pate – November 2005