ANTIRACISM AND RACIAL JUSTICE
This timeline delves into the positions of the Fédération des Femmes du Québec (FFQ) on anti-racism and racial justice. It highlights struggles against systemic racism, racial discrimination, and efforts to promote an intersectional approach.
Please Note: The definitive text of our Stances is available in French only. The English translation is provided strictly for reference.
2020
THAT FFQ support efforts to defund police forces and reinvest in the community;
THAT FFQ reaffirm its support for anti-racist movements such as Black Lives Matter.
2014
THAT FFQ prepare a reflection and a proposal for a position on feminist debates associated with a cultural dimension so that FFQ and its members can clarify the overall approach to these issues.
2009
THAT FFQ continue to promote recognition of the rights of immigrant and racialized women.
2007
THAT FFQ strengthen its ties with Quebec Native Women (QNW) by organizing a special meeting of the boards of directors of both organizations to deepen our mutual understanding of the issues faced by Indigenous women and Quebec women, and to define common actions.
2007
THAT FFQ continue its awareness and public education activities in Montreal and the regions to highlight the contribution of immigrant women to Quebec society and to raise awareness among women’s, community, and union groups about the racism and exclusion these women face.
2006
THAT FFQ organize awareness and public education activities in Montreal and the regions to highlight the contribution of immigrant women to Quebec society and to raise awareness among women’s, community, and union groups about the racism and exclusion these women face.
2006
THAT the committee for the recognition of lesbians continue to reflect on the specific discriminations experienced by lesbians from cultural communities and initiate the development of intervention strategies with women’s groups from cultural communities on this issue.
2005
THAT FFQ organize a forum in the fall of 2005 to identify concrete mechanisms and means of action for better participation and representation of women from cultural communities within the women’s movement and in political and decision-making spaces.
THAT FFQ intensifie the work of identifying ways to combat discrimination within feminist organizations.
2005
THAT FFQ initiate a reflection with lesbian women from cultural communities on the discrimination they face.
2004
THAT FFQ initiate a three-year process to develop, with an inclusive and shared leadership perspective with women’s organizations from ethnocultural communities, including those in the regions, and organizations interested or already working on this issue, a strategy to combat racism and ethnic and religious discriminations.
THAT FFQ analyze the different sources of oppression and identify ways to combat these discriminations within feminist organizations, including the definition of concrete mechanisms, including a management policy and means of action to ensure better participation and representation of women from ethnocultural communities within the women’s movement and in political and decision-making spaces.
2003
THAT FFQ adopt a strategy to combat racial and ethnic discrimination, and to open up to ethnocultural diversity, within three years, by developing, with other partners, if necessary, permanent training for FFQ members on the realities of women from ethnocultural communities and Indigenous women. This strategy should include, among other things, identifying ways to combat racial, ethnic, and religious discriminations within feminist organizations and developing a management policy favoring inclusion, to ensure equal internal functioning as well as collaborations in solidarity with women’s organizations from ethnocultural communities.
1997
THAT FFQ continue the work undertaken by the Tolérance/intolérance et droits des femmes Committee and organize, notably in 1997, a regional tour on the issue of cultural diversity and systemic racism.