[clari.canada.general] Women:

clarinews@clarinet.com (hewitt/standard broadcast news) (02/02/90)

	(OTTAWA) Canada's largest feminist organization argues with a
federal report which says progress is being made in this country toward
equality for women.
	The National Action Committee on the Status of Women hopes to get a
hearing before the United Nations committee on Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women.
	At a Toronto news conference, the women's organization said
Ottawa's report to the U-N committee is...''superficial, incomplete, and
misleading''. N-A-C official Judy Rebick says, for example, that Ottawa
boasts to the U-N about its employment equity legislation. According to
Rebick the act is a joke. She says it's not funny because a lot of
people are suffering.
	The N-A-C also says the proposed new abortion law is unjust, and
that there's continued discrimination against Canada's native women.