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• Fact Sheet on Sexual Assault

  Fact Sheet on Homicide and Spousal Homicide

  Fact Sheet on Intimate Partner Violence

  November 28, 2008

  (prepared for The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women).

• Fact Sheet on Violence against Women

  Fact Sheet on Sexual Assault

  Fact Sheet on Intimate Partner Violence

  Fact Sheet on Spousal Homicide

  December 2007

• NS Advisory Council on the Status of Women Business Plan 2007-2008

  (pdf format) Requires Acrobat^TM Reader
  April 2007

• Fact Sheet on Violence against Women

  December 1, 2006

• Guide for Girls

  October, 2005

  A new publication from the Advisory Council on the Status of Women (released Oct. 5) helps teenaged girls make good decisions about their futures. Guide for Girls discusses preparing for work and career, relationships with friends and family, money management and community involvement. This book encourages girls to look beyond the traditional expectations and inspires them to seek their own best route to self-sufficiency. It helps them to define success for themselves and to strive to achieve it.
  

• Making Changes: A Book for Women in Abusive Relationships - 2007, 5th edition

  November 29, 2007

  The book Making Changes: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships lays out the steps to safety and freedom from family violence in Nova Scotia and now contains advice and information on what family and friends can do to help.
  

  (pdf format) Requires Acrobat^TM Reader

• Making Changes: A Book for Women in Abusive Relationships - 2006 4th edition

  March 2006

  Substantially the same as the 2003 revised edition with revisions and updates made to the directory of services.

  (pdf format) Requires Acrobat^TM Reader

• Votes for Women - a Political Guidebook

  Des votes pour les femmes - Une guide politique

  (pdf format) Requires Acrobat^TM Reader
  May 17, 2004

• Changer pour le mieux: un livre pour les femmes victimes de violence - 2003 Troisieme edition (Revisee)

  December 2003
  (pdf format) Requires Acrobat^TM Reader
  

• Family Violence and Personal Safety: Women in Nova Scotia, Part 3 of a Statistical Series

  December 2001
  Note: full publication available online in PDF format only. Requires Acrobat^TM Reader

  Note: April 18, 2002: this publication is out of print in hard copy, and available only in online form.

• Women's Paid and Unpaid Work: Women in Nova Scotia, Part 5 of a Statistical Series

  (pdf format) Requires Acrobat^TM Reader
  June 14, 2004
  Revision Note, March 3, 2005
  See backgrounder here
  
  

• Presentation to the Prime Minister's Caucus Task Force on Seniors

  Requires Acrobat^TM Reader
  November, 2003

• Response To Bill C-22 An Act To Amend The Divorce Act

  Requires Acrobat^TM Reader
  August, 2003

• Backgrounder on Women's Issues

  Requires Acrobat^TM Reader
  November, 2002

• Review of the Employment Equity Act A Report to the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities

  Ottawa
  February 21, 2002

• Voyeurism as a Criminal Offence: Response to Department of Justice Consultation Paper

  RequiresAcrobat^TM Reader
  October, 2002
  See the Department of Justice consultation paper here

• Custody, Access, and Child Support in Canada: A Brief in Response to the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Consultation on Divorce Act Reform

  June, 2001

• A Woman's Work is Never Done - Can Policy Value Caregiving?

  March, 2000
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