Gender Justice Women7 Canada
The W7 is a G7 engagement group that provides recommendations to G7 leaders and officials. 63 feminist activists from 20 countries contribute their priorities and perspectives. Eleven Canadian organizations have come together to coordinate the 2025 W7.
Latest W7
Insights & Updates
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Published April 15, 2025
Sign the communiqué
This Communiqué is addressed to G7 leaders, Ministers, and policy makers. It builds on and consolidates the Women 7’s (W7) Communiqués from the past seven years and includes updates from activists around the world. We invite organizations from around the world to sign on.
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Published March 28, 2025
Feminist Visions for a Just G7: Background Papers
The W7 presents a new series of feminist background papers on AI and technology, climate justice, democracy, and economic resilience—laying the groundwork for bold G7 recommendations to come.
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Published March 25, 2025
W7 + GEAC Update
24 March 2025 Last week in Ottawa, the Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC) convened to discuss recommendations on gender equality it will present to this year’s G7 leaders and ministers. Established in 2018 during Canada’s G7 Presidency, the GEAC was created to support attention to gender equality in the G7’s discussions and policies. The GEAC […]
Areas for Gender Justice Recommendations
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AI & Emerging technologies
Ensure gender justice in tech development and regulation to eliminate bias, discrimination and violence
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Climate Crisis
Take meaningful action to achieve just and gender-transformatory solutions to the climate catastrophe
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Democracy
Strengthen democracies, human rights, and feminist movements, building an effective response to the actors seeking to rollback the rights of women and 2SLGBTIQ+ people.
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Economic Resilience
Build economies that prioritize human rights and promote democratic global economic decision-making.
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Gender Equality
Remove all barriers to equal rights, ensuring gender-informed policies, ending GBV, closing resource and opportunity gaps, and promoting leadership for women and diverse people.
W7 Canada Organising Committee
| Organisation | Committee Member |
|---|---|
| Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights | Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah |
| Canadian Labour Congress | Bilan Arte |
| Canadian Labour Congress | Vicky Smallman |
| Canadian Women's Foundation | Karen Campbell |
| Equality Fund | Sophie Efange |
| Equitas - International Center for Human Rights Education | Odette McCarthy |
| Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative | Beth Woroniuk |
| Mines Action Canada | Erin Hunt |
| National Association of Friendship Centres | Kara Louttit |
| Nobel Women's Initiative | Muzna Dureid |
| Oxfam Canada | Diana Sarosi |
| Oxfam Canada | Laveza Khan |
| Women’s Shelters Canada | Anuradha Dugal |