1. WHEREAS the current constitutional debate has relevance to women and women's issues,
  • BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. Board Members and staff contact other national women's organizations to find out what their initiatives are regarding constitutional issues.

  • That C.C.L.O.W. be a clearing house for information from national/provincial/local C.C.L.O.W. networks regarding the relevance of the constitutional debate and women's issues.

  • That CCLOW Board Members initiate workshops or find other ways to help women in their areas understand the connection between the constitutional debate and women's issues.
  1. BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. support the content and recommendations of the Status of Women's Report "Sharing the Power".

  2. BE IT RESOLVED THAT C.C.L.O.W. initiate contact with other national women's organizations in order to clarify the mandate of those organizations and to share responsibilities in a mutually constructive way.

  3. BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. find ways of encouraging French-speaking women from across the country and from Quebec to join C.C.L.O.W. (including holding the 1982 conference in Montreal, at the University of Montreal, in collaboration with the Department of Educational Sciences), and organizing other women's programs, in French at colleges, universities and in communities.

  4. BE IT RESOLVED that the Nova Scotia C.C.L.O.W. network:

    - support the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association in its request for a women's resource, employment and counseling centre for the Mic Mac native women in Nova Scotia; and

    - urge the appropriate authority to provide women in correctional institutions with educational opportunities within the institution or the community.

  5. BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. consider focusing on issues related to the International Year of the Handi- capped including the intellectually, emotionally, socially, and economically handicapped.

  6. BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. recommend to UNESCO that an International Conference of Adult Education be convened before the end of the UN Decade for Women. It is important that UNESCO recommend to their national commissions that their delegates should represent as broad a spectrum as possible of women concerned with learning opportunities for women.

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