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Egale has been appointed to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Content Advisory Council. The Museum is slated to open in Winnipeg in 2013!
ECHRT has been chosen as the partner charity for the 2011 White Knight Gala, an annual fundraiser put on by the Ron White Foundation. For more information or tickets, visit whiteknightgala.com.
Many thanks to Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP and Egale’s counsel, Cynthia Petersen, for such tireless pro-bono work on our behalf in CBS v. Kyle Freeman and the Saskatchewan Marriage Reference.
Egale’s Susan Rose spoke this February at the Canadian Teachers’ Federation’s Women’s Issues Symposium in Moncton and at Newfoundland’s Violence Prevention Initiative Conference.
Thank you to the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW) who just made a $25,000 pledge to Egale’s Safe Schools Campaign.
Visiting Ottawa? Mention Egale Canada at the boutique ARC The.Hotel www.arcthehotel.com and you’ll get a preferred rate and support our work!
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 Egale at the UN – Egale attended the NGO Committee hearings at the UN in New York this month to raise awareness of the ongoing violence and discrimination against LGBT people globally. As part of the ILGA group, we lobbied for recognition for LGBT organizations who advocate for equality rights in countries that continue to discriminate against LGBT people.
Resource for Educators – MyGSA.ca is re-launching its Educators' Section! Visit MyGSA.ca/educators to access resources like one of the world’s largest LGBT-friendly book list, film database and lesson plans. Check out the new layout, content, and design, and while you’re there, let us know what you think by filling out a feedback form. MyGSA.ca is Canada's national LGBTQ safer schools and inclusive education website.
Helen Kennedy Receives the Jose Sarria Award – Egale’s Executive Director, Helen Kennedy, has won the Jose Sarria Award for Civil Rights. Also receiving the award are: Bill Siskay, MP, Hedy Fry, MP, former MP Penny Priddy and James Miller. Sarria is the founder of the International Imperial Court, one of the oldest and largest gay organizations in the world raising money for charities. The Award is being presented in Vancouver in March.
New Advisory Board – Introducing the Egale Canada Human Rights Trust Honorary Advisory Board:
Police Training Update –
Egale just finished providing Report Homophobic Violence, Period (RHVP) training to the entire Windsor Police Service, the Codiac RCMP detachment in Moncton, and at the Ontario Police College. Look for us in Saskatoon this March.
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Trans Human Rights – Bill C-389, which would amend the CHRA and the Criminal Code to include gender identity and gender expression, passed third reading in the House of Commons on February 9. Egale is working actively, in partnership with labour and community organizations, to ensure swift passage of the bill in the Senate.
Uganda Situation
On January 26, Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato was murdered, shortly after winning a lawsuit against the Ugandan tabloid that published his photo and called for his execution because he was gay. Egale issued a statement and wrote an open letter to Minister Cannon urging him to publically condemn this tragedy and call on the Ugandan authorities to take all measures possible to ensure the safety of LGBT individuals and their families in that country. 
  
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