Canadian Women's Trade Union Delegation Meets with Minister Ambrose

Julie White, Vicky Smallman, Patty Ducharme and other trade union
women meet with minister Ambrose.

The Canadian women's trade union delegation to the UNCSW55 met with Minister Rona Ambrose following her presentation to the UN. Further details of this meeting will be posted soon, but this is some of the twitterfeed from sisters at the meeting:

Canadian NGO delegation made it clear to Ambrose that we are opposed to this government's actions which undermine women's rights #uncsw

Patty Ducharme asks Minister why the focus only on 13 honour killings when over 800 women were murdered by men in Canada btw 02 & 09 #uncsw

Unions to Minister Ambrose: funding for missing and murdered Aboriginal women should go to Aboriginal women's groups not to the RCMP #uncsw

Patty Ducharme challenging Minister Ambrose on the gun registry and violence against women #uncsw