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Lobby Material from OWNCCA Now Available

Divorce Act Amendments Announced by Pamela Cross (dd Dec 16, 2002)
Advantages || Disadvantages || Conclusion

The Ontario Women's Network on Child Custody and Access (OWNCCA) has prepared a number of lobbying materials to assist local groups in organizing around proposed changes to custody and access legislation.

Lobbying Tools:

• a backgrounder on OWNCCA - PDF or HTML  
  
  

• a backgrounder on family law reform - PDF or HTML
  
  

• a sample letter to the Minister of Justice - HTML
  
  

• media pointers  - PDF or HTML
  
  

Fact Sheets:

• The Best Interests of the Child - PDF or HTML
  
  

• Woman Abuse - PDF or HTML
  
  

• Women's Access to Justice  - PDF or HTML
  
  

• Women's (In)Equality - PDF or HTML
  
  

• Parenting After Separation - PDF or HTML

You, of course, will know best what lobbying strategies will work in your community. We make only a few general suggestions:

·        bringing together women’s services, labour groups, child care groups and others concerned about the rights of women and children to discuss and become informed about this issue

·        meeting with your MPP and MP

·        engaging in a letter-writing campaign with your MPP, MPP and the Minister of Justice and others in the federal government

·        meeting with your local media to provide them with information about this issue

·        holding a public meeting to discuss this issue. 

We encourage you to use any or all of this material, adapting it where necessary. We would really appreciate it if you could keep in touch with us (pcross@web.ca) so we know how local organizing and lobbying efforts are doing.

We encourage anyone concerned about the rights of women and children to read the detailed background material on this issue posted on this website and to use the lobby material we are posting now. Further material will follow as it becomes available. 

source: OWJN

Backgrounder on OWNCCA
Backgrounder on Family Law Reform
Sample Letter to the Minister of Justice
Media Pointers
Five fact sheets:
Best Interest of the Child,
Woman Abuse,
Women's Access to Justice,
Women's (In)Equality, and
Parenting After Separation

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