Position: Director, Women's Program / Staff Lawyer CERA - Centre For Equality Rights in Accommodation.
Website: coming soon...
e-mail: leilani@equalityrights.org
Address: 200 Maclaren St.
Ottawa , ON
K2P 0L6
Phone: 613 233 8618
E-Fax: 416 352 5507
Leilani Farha's Bio:
Leilani founded and is the Director of the Women's Program at CERA - Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, a non-governmental human rights organization. The Women's Program is national in scope and is aimed at addressing women's inequality in housing and income support programs. She also co-authored the report Women and Housing in Canada : Barriers to Equality. Prior to joining CERA, Leilani worked at an international human rights NGO, where she established and coordinated a women's housing rights program.
Leilani has worked extensively with international human rights instruments and within the international human rights system. She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Feminist Alliance for International Action.
Narmeen Hashim
Position: Program Assistant, Women's Program, Center for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA)
Website: coming soon...
e-mail: narmeen@equalityrights.org
Address: 200 Maclaren St.
Ottawa , ON
K2P 0L6
Phone: 604-561-6998
E-Fax: 416 352 5507
Narmeen Hashim's Bio:
Narmeen is the program assistant for WHEN. She opens the lines of communication across the board to enable collective action and resource development on National Women's Housing, Homelessness, and Poverty issues. Her experiences living and working with immigrant and visible minority women, most of whom are facing domestic abuse and poverty issues allows her a greater more personal insight into the field. Narmeen's passion for women's equality rights and housing stems from her belief that all individuals and families have the right to a safe space.
Joyce Brown
Position: Women's Housing Advocacy Group (WHAG) Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood (GROOTS) Ontario Council of Alternative Businesses, Co-Director.
Website: coming soon...
e-mail: jmbrown@on.aibn.com
Address: 1499 Queen St. West, Suite 203
Toronto , ON.
M6R 1A3
Phone: 416 504 1693
Fax: 416 504 8063
Joyce Brown 's Bio:
Joyce Brown has worked in the area of housing, homelessness and mental health for the past twenty years. She has conducted research on homelessness in Canada, Kenya and Zimbabwe . She is currently the Executive Director of the Ontario Council of Alternative Businesses, an organization that provides employment to people who have mental health issues. She is a member of GROOTS, an international network of women working at the community level.
Maureen Callaghan
Position: Community Worker - Homelessness District Municipality of Muskoka.
Website: coming soon...
e-mail: maureen@vianet.ca
Address: c/o 1038 Portage Flyer Lane . RR #4
Huntsville , ON.
P1H 2J6
Phone: 705 789 4705
Maureen Callaghan's Bio:
Maureen Callaghan has been active in women's housing issues since 1987 when she was hired as a Housing Coordinator at the drop-in center for pregnant and parenting teenagers (Jessie's Centre for Teenagers) Toronto. Since 1999, Maureen has worked in rural homelessness and housing issues with Muskoka Community Services. In 2002 she co-authored the report Women and Housing in Canada: Barriers to Equality released by the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA).
