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.