The smuggling of migrants, while often undertaken in dangerous or degrading conditions, involves migrants who have consented to the smuggling. Trafficking victims, on the other hand, have either never consented or, if they initially consented, that consent has been rendered meaningless by the coercive, deceptive or abusive actions of...
In 2011, National Council of Jewish Women of Canada partnered with Trillium Gift of Life Network Program, thereafter this program was approved by National Council as one of our initiatives. Trillium Gift of Life Network (a not-for-profit agency of the Government of Ontario), plans, promotes, coordinates and supports organ...
Jewish Genetic Diseases Awareness Testing Some inherited diseases result when both parents silently carry the same recessive genetic trait. All couples with ANY Jewish ancestry, including interfaith couples, should have pre-conception carrier screening for all Jewish genetic diseases. Approximately one in four people in the Ashkenazi Jewish population is...
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, is a voluntary organization which, in the spirit of Judaism, is dedicated to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general communities locally, nationally and internationally.
