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PRESS RELEASE;

he Northern
Challenges for Women
Conference was held in
. Terrace at the Northwest
Community College
* campus April 14-16, 1978.

This’ conference was
sponsored by the

omen's Studies Ad-
visory Committee in
conjunction with the
Smither’s Community |
Law Centre, the
Aboriginal Studies Ad-
visory Committee, the
Labour Studies Advisory
_ Committee, the Early

Childhood Advisory
Committee and Nor-
thwest Community
College,

A variety of workshops
were held ranging from
Country Women’s Self
Sufficiency, the - Van-
couver Women's Health
Collectice to Women and
Aging; an Inquiry.

Singers Betsy Rose and
Kathy Winter pfovided °
entertainment on
Saturday night.

With the participation
of over 100 people from
throughout the northwest
region the following
resolutions were drawn

Mp: - ,

RESOLUTIONS from
Workshop on Women and
the Law:

1.WOMEN in all our
communities need more
legal information and
legal education and they
should be encouraged to
use both.

2.WOMEN in all our
communitites should be
encouraged to take an
active role in ascer-
taining and defining legal
needs in the com-
munities. '

3.WOMEN want to know
in advance what are
lawyers' ‘specialities and
how . much... |

COUSELLIN
VANCOUVER
WOMEN’S

COLLECTIVE.

HEALTH

RECOMMEDNATIONS
from Workshops on Rape
Relief, Abortion
Couselling, and Van-
couver Wonien’s Health
Collective:
L.WHEREAS the
government has. the
responsiblility to provide
services to women of all
ages,

. WHEREAS we
recognize that the
government has
neglected their

responsibility and the
women of all ages, must
work to achieve these
servites in Norhtern
Communities.

WE RECOMMEND

THAT rape relief and
abortion counselling be
accessible to women of
all ages through the
. education system as well
as through community
organizations.

‘THAT. ‘information
regarding rape, violence
against women, abortion
and ‘birth control be
accessible to women of
all ages “through the
education system as well
as through community
organizations. .

THAT self-defense for
women of all ages,
available to women:
through the eduction
system ,as'well as
through _ organizations.

THAT couselling and
education of rape relief,
abortion and violence
against ‘women and
children’’ be made
available to men of all
ages through.
the eduction system as —
well -as, through com-
_ munity organizations. .
‘WHEREAS  woinen..

’ WHEREAS we rec

against violence in their |

homes.:
WE RECCOMEND that
the R.C.M.P.  and-

judical system seriously
revise their training and
practices around in-
tervention in- domestic
violence in order to offer
preater protection and
legal recourse to women
and children who are
abuse in their home.
WHEREAS we
recognize that there is no
100 percent, safe reliable
birth control, method
available for men and
women; WE RECOM:
MEND ‘that funds be
made available for birth
control research.
Ize
that abortion should not
be written into the

‘Criminal Code;

WE RECCOMEND that
abortion should be made
available upon demand in
all hospitals in British
Columbia.

WHEREAS we recognize
that certain groups are
acting political ‘4 to
restrict the right of

women to = abtain
‘adequate health care and
information.

BE IF RESOLVED
that we write letters to
the Minister of Health,
Bob McLelland,; and

‘Director of Community

Grants, John Doughty, in
Support of the Vancouver
Women's Health
Collective.

WHERE ASabortion, ra

and birth control in-
formation has
presented in the schools
as a moral issue. WE
RECOMMEND ws
that women be provid

with unbiased access to
information re rape,

eontrol, ‘

WHEREAS the ra
laws in Canada are se:
and inhibit prosecuti
p pre £ :

t

‘eco ra a
crime of violence ond not -

a sexual crime.
WE RECOMMEND

THAT rape be
reclassified and placed
under the class-ification
Assault, Sexual,

THAT as such sexual
assault should not ex-
clude men as victims and
legal husbands should be
prsecuted for sexual:
assault against their
wives.

WHEREAS
recognize that domestic
violence isnot being dealt
with adequately by police
or judicial system .
WE RECOMMEND: —

THAT attitudes by
police and judicial.
systems towards

domestic violence. be -

seriously reexamined

‘and changed to alter :the

reality that at present
women are often victims
of assault in their homes
with no protection o
LEGAL recourse,
FROM WORKSHOP ON
NATIVE WOMEN'S
CONCERNS: .
1.WHEREAS we
recognize the oppression
of native people

in racism; -

BEIT RESOLVED that

non-native people ac-:
tively: ‘take up the

struggle against racism.
arnend non-native people. - -

as ‘a concrete: act of

be solidarity with our native

brothers and sisters.
2,.WHEREAS

recognize the double
oppression of ‘ native

we

women -through racism

and sexism; - . ...
’ WE RESOLVE tocarry

out activities in support .

of their struggle against
oppression an nat
WE FURTHER
RESOLVE that we
support the inclusion of
the Indian Act in the
Canadian Human Rights

currently have little /Actand the
recourse or protection jremoval of

“> BG, briefs

BREWER. ESCAPES
BURNABY (CP) —.
‘Theresa’ Brewer, a 22-
year-old prisoner at the:
women’s init of the
Lower. “Mainland
Regional ‘Correctional’
Centre: (Cakalla) in’ this
Vancouver « suburb,

escaped custody again

‘Monday, Brewer, who

has escaped:from the in-

.stitution ‘several times,

fled from a guard while
ein ;
psychiatrist's office. She
was originally sentenced
to two years less a day.in
prison for robbery. =~

been. «=

aboration and birth -

we |

roats. *

escorted.-to a.

Recommendations from the
Northern challenges for Women
conference |

discriminatory sections
froni the Indian Act.
3.BE IT RESOLVED that
non-native women's
groups actively com-:
municate with native
women’s groups in north-
western British
Columbia, so as to
determine the most ef-
fective way of working
with one another in the
struggle against racism-
sexism, «

FROM THE
WORKSHOP.-THE
VANCOUVER ;
WOMEN'S HEALTH
COLLECTIVE WOMEN
AGING:
1.WHEREAS we
recognize that the elderly

and the young are vital
parts ‘of our community.

WE RECOMMEND
that they should be given

more rights and op-:

portunities for par-

ticipation.:in our com-
munities.

2.THAT participants in
this conference address
themselves to the
problem of. elderly
women and inequities in
pension plans affecting
elderly women.

FROM THE

’ WORKSHOP-UNIONS

AND ECONOMICS
WHEREAS to be fully

liberated women must be
an integral part of
society, ©

WHEREAS women do
not want to be integrated
into a society that ex-
ploits people;

BE IT RESOLVED —.
that we support a fun-

damental change in
society such that
economic and political
control is held by society
as a whole, including
women.

Murder conviction
follows beating —

NEW WESTMINSTER, .

(CP) — Kenneth
19, .of

B.C,
Brian Hiscox;

nearby Langley was con- |

victe: in British
Columbia Supreme Court
Monday of seconddegree
murder in the July, 1976
beating death of a 16
year-old girl.

The body of Brenda
Kerscher of Surrey,nB.C.
was found in the Fraser
River following a teenage
drinking party beside the
river east of Vancouver.

Hiscox was sentenced
to life imprisonment with
a minimum of 10 years

without parole. The jury
made no recom-

mendation on when

Hiscox should be con- .

sidered for parole.
Before sentence was
pronounced, Hiscox said:
“You won't be making
my life miserable,"* and,
gesturing to his parents.
“you'll be making other

people's lives
miserable,"
After he left the

courtraom, Hiscox began
to struggle and it took
about six sheriff's of-
ficers to get him into the
cells.

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Robert Benz, who sued

* his former employer for

committing adultery with
Benz’ former wife, was
awarded $1.000 in
damages in British
Colum bia Supreme Court

Monday.
Justice J, S, Aikens

‘awarded the money . to

Benz, a Vancouver heavy
equipment operator who
said he suffered emo-
tionally and had been
deprived of a large

amount of money through .

the loss of his wife's af-
fection and wage-earning
ability. oO

Benz blamed the
breakup of his marriage
on builder Hendricus

Willems. Court was told
Willems began a love
affair with Mrs. Benz
while her husband was
working for him.
‘Robert and Mary Benz
were divorced on grounds
of adultery in 1975 and
two years later the for-
mer Mrs, Benz married
Willems. :
HELPED MARRIAGE
END

Justice Aikens said in.

his ‘ judgment that

" Willems played a part in

bringing the marriage to
an end and Benz was
therefore entitled ta some
damages. .
But he said that when
the defendant came on
the scene, Mrs. Benz was

THE HERALD, Wednesday, April 19, 1978, PAGE F

Damages for adultery

already an unhappy
woman, mainly deterred
from leaving her husband
by fear that she would
lose her child,

If it had not been for
this fear, it is likely she
would have left him
before she met the de-
fendant, said the judge.

“My firm impression of
the plaintiff's conduct is
that he has been moved
not so much by con-
siderations of honor and
injury to his feelings as
by vindictiveness,” he
said.

In setting the $1,000
award, Justice Aikens
said this was a case for
moderation.

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