Justice

Why is there no justice for women?

• justice system is intimidating
• sexual orientation is not in the federal human rights code anywhere
• discretion of law is left to judges and who hires these judges?
• appointees are political and reflect a male-dominated system
• silence is taken as defiance or ignorance
• laws are biased against women, against culture
• more than 3/4 of judges, lawyers, police officers, etc., are male
• economic bias - bias against class
• women are revictimized when they do try to use the justice system
• no training for judges, police officers, lawyers in rights or issues of victims (women and children)
• laws protect rights of abuser not of victim - victims are barred from courtroom
• pool support for victims in the justice system (counselling, safety, financial)
• the justice system is racist and sexist
• judged based on literacy level- label people and base the judgement on this label