Womencan.ca, the Canadian Women's Information Centre, helps women respond to challenges and improve their quality of life. Whether they are working outside the home or parenting, on their own or with a spouse, young, middle-aged or elderly, women face challenges. Womencan.ca is the site to turn to for information and resources to help women take charge of their lives.
Womencan.ca, le Centre canadien d’information des femmes, aide les femmes à relever des défis et à améliorer leur qualité de vie. Qu’elles travaillent à l’extérieur du foyer ou qu’elles y élèvent des enfants, seules ou conjointement, les femmes jeunes, d’âge moyen ou aînées font face à des défis. Womencan.ca est le site où chercher des renseignements et des ressources pour aider les femmes à prendre leur vie en charge.
womencan.ca provides the following features:
womencan.ca est un site Web offrant les ressources suivantes:
- The Directory of Canadian Women’s Resources, a searchable database of over 2,500 women’s groups in Canada. Groups are organized by topic within each province and territory (Centres/Groups, Women in the Law, Women's Shelters, for example). / l’Annuaire des ressources pour femmes du Canada, une base de données consultable qui regroupe plus de 2 500 groupes de femmes au Canada, organisés par thème pour chaque province et territoire (par exemple : Centres et groupes, Femmes et droit, Maisons d’hébergement et de transition).
- a Links Section, which contains hundreds of annotated links to international and Canadian women’s sites. Canadian Links are organized by province and territory. International Links are categorized by topic (Feminist Publication and Journals; Violence Against Women; Reproductive Rights, for example). / une section Liens, qui regroupe des centaines d’hyperliens annotés vers des sites internationaux et canadiens de femmes. Les liens canadiens sont groupés par province et par territoire. Les liens internationaux sont groupés par thème (par exemple, Publications féministes, Violence faite aux femmes et Droits génésiques).
- News and Resources, including Bulletin Boards that are updated daily / une section Nouvelles et ressources, y compris des babillards d’information mis à jour quotidiennement
- a free e-letter for notification of additions and improvements to womennet / une liste d’envoi électronique gratuite pour vous aviser d’ajouts et d’améliorations à womencan.ca.
Statement of Values and Ethics/Énoncé de valeurs et principes
- Womencan.ca will not accept listings, links or information that harm people by references that are sexist, racist, homophobic, ageist or otherwise denigrating to differences in any way. / Womencan.ca n’acceptera pas d’inscriptions, d’hyperliens ou d’information qui portent préjudice aux gens par des références sexistes, racistes, homophobes, ou discriminatoires en raison de l’âge ou de quelque autre différence.
- Womencan.ca will accept commercial sponsorship and links to sponsors but will not accept sponsorships from commercial enterprises that produce products that harm the environment or harm people's health. / Womencan.ca accueillera des commandites commerciales et des liens à ses commanditaires mais n’acceptera pas des commandites d’entreprises qui fabriquent des produits néfastes pour l’environnement ou pour la santé des gens.
- Information that Womencan.ca receives or postings submitted for bulletin boards, message boards or listservs that may be developed in the future will be monitored and postings which are obscene or otherwise fall under paragraph one will not be accepted. / L’information reçue par womencan.ca ou les messages adressés à ses éventuels babillards électroniques, listes de messages et forums de discussion feront l’objet d’un contrôle et les messages obscènes ou contrevenant autrement au premier paragraphe seront rejetés.
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Guidelines for the Relationship between Womencan and Corporate Partnerships.
Overview
Womencan (www.cbcn.ca) seeks partners for new ventures with non-profit and for-profit organizations that will be mutually beneficial, further womencan’s mission to add to and improve the information on the womencan site. The following basic principles are suggested; they should be regarded as issues to be addressed during a review of a proposed partnership, rather than absolute rules.
Procedures
Partnerships involve building relationships over a number of years. The Executive will be responsible for monitoring ongoing partnership activities on an annual basis as well as reviewing new partnerships as they are proposed. The Executive will evaluate each new partnership and the proposed activities if it is a major departure from existing types of partnerships or activities, and make a recommendation to the Board of Directors, which will make the final decision based on these Guidelines.
Any Board member or other individual involved in the process of review will declare her/his conflict of interest where it exists and excuse themselves from the discussion.
Where there is a contractual agreement, potential liability of womennet should be addressed by womencan’s legal advisors in their review of the proposed contract.
It is expected that:
- The partnership will benefit women using the site and be respectful of women at all times.
- The activities undertaken together will meet the ethical and social responsibilities of womennet.
- The goals and objectives of the partnership will be compatible with womennet’s.
- Partnerships will avoid endorsement of specific products.
Any financial obligations or risks associated with partnerships will be clearly defined. - When reviewing new partnerships, consideration will be given to the implications and impact on existing and possible future partnerships.
- Partnerships will adhere to womencan’s policies and procedures on volunteer confidentiality.
- The use of womencan's logo by a partner will be with prior written permission only.
- womencan will be prepared to disclose publicly any responsibilities to the partnering organizations or corporation.
