The Philippine Women Centre of BC and the Kalayaan Centre would like to thank the support of the City of Vancouver.

PWC of BC would also like to acknowledge the financial support of Status of Women Canada.

(21 March 2010) For International Day for the Elimination of Racism, the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance/Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada-BC, brought together youth and members of the community for Pinoy Poetiks, an intimate evening of spoken word, music, dance and poetry.

Growing local Filipino community to launch ground-breaking exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver (March 23, 2010)

Event Announcement: Filipino Community Celebrates Day to Eliminate Racism Through Cultural Performances (Posted March 11, 2010)

Letter to the Editor: On the "Immigration wave changing Canada" (March 11, 2010)

Art exhibit to break invisibility of Filipinos in Vancouver (March 10, 2010)

International Women's Day 2010: Towards genuine women's equality, development and liberation (March 8, 2010)

Filipino community to mount multi-media exhibit, host public dialogue and reception at the Museum of Vancouver (February 15, 2010)

Filipino students' dropout rate no surprise (January 29, 2010)

PHOTOS: Community rallies against Federal government changes to the Live-in Caregiver Program (January 16, 2010)

Live-in caregivers take pots & pans out of the kitchen and into the streets to demand scrapping of program (January 14, 2010)

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20 May 2009

National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada
Press release

Scrap Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program: End violence against Filipino women!

As progressive Filipino-Canadian women, the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) once again calls for the scrapping of the racist and anti-woman Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP).  We hold the federal government, through its Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) Minister Jason Kenney, accountable for maintaining modern-day slavery in Canada and in perpetuating racism and violence against women.

For a country that basks in the reputation as a champion of human rights and women’s equality, Canada clearly fails to uphold the fundamental human rights of live-in caregivers and instead facilitates state violence against these women and the Filipino-Canadian community.  While Canada continues to recruit live-in caregivers, 96% from the Philippines, to provide care for children, people with disabilities and the elderly of middle and upper-class Canadian families, Canada is unwilling to provide necessary protection to this group of women and turns a blind eye to the numerous and worsening cases of abuse and neglect perpetuated by this program.

At the height of the series of exposes on the abuses under the federal government’s live-in caregiver program (LCP), Minister Kenney denies the structural violence that is inherent in this program and justified it to be a “valuable program” in a radio interview with CBC’s “The Current” last May 8, 2009.

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