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Public Awareness Initiatives

CAEFS engages in public awareness efforts about incarceration in Canada at multiple scales. Learn more about the important topics that CAEFS focuses on

Elizabeth Fry Week: Understanding Parole, May 2023

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In 2023, we are focusing Elizabeth Fry Week on the theme of “Understanding Parole”. The legal framework of parole – and the lived reality of being on parole – is […]

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Elizabeth Fry Week: Doing Life, May 2022

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The goal of Elizabeth Fry Week is to enhance public awareness and education around the issues impacting criminalized and marginalized women and gender-diverse people. In 2022 we used Elizabeth Fry Week […]

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Black Women Under State: A Conversation with Idil Abdillahi, February 2022

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On February 15th 2022, we hosted a virtual interview with Dr. Idil Abdillahi on her new book “Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty, & the Violence of Social Assistance”. Idil […]

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Annual General Meeting, September 2021

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On September 25th, 2021, we gathered online for our Annual General Meeting, featuring aconversation titled, “From Knowing to Doing: Working with Indigenous Partners to End the Criminalization of Indigenous Women, […]

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Virtual Conference, May 2021

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On May 6th, 2021, CAEFS hosted a free virtual one-day conference to engage our network and partners in the human rights issues impacting criminalized and incarcerated women and gender-diverse people. […]

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