(16 Januar 2010) Continuing their community-based efforts to raise public awareness and education about the conditions of Filipino workers and women in Canada, over 50 Filipino domestic workers, women, youth and supporters joined the Philippine Women Centre and SIKLAB in a community action protesting the federal government's proposed changes to Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program.

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Filipino live-in caregivers share stories and struggles of family separation under the LCP during the Holiday Season (December 24, 2009)

Minister Jason Kenney is no Santa Claus to thousands of Filipino live-in caregivers (December 19, 2009)

Local Filipinos rally to condemn changes to the Live-in Caregiver Program (December 15, 2009)

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Filipino-Canadian women struggle to address the root causes of violence against women and struggle for our genuine equality and liberation! (December 6, 2009)

PHOTOS: SIKLAB-BC celebrates 15 years of organizing Filipino workers in BC (November 21, 2009)

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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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Articles from some of the speakers at the "Laws, Labels and Liberation" conference (09/06/04)

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