Young Women Vote [ The 20,000 Project ]

Young Women's Christian Association | YWCA [Abbr.]

Definition: A disorder characterized by deliberate weight loss, induced and sustained by the patient. It occurs most commonly in adolescent girls and young women, but adolescent boys and young men may also be affected, as may children approaching puberty and older women up to the menopause. The disorder is associated with a specific psychopathology whereby a dread of fatness and flabbiness of body contour persists as an intrusive overvalued idea, and the patients impose a low weight threshold on themselves. There is usually undernutrition of varying severity with secondary endocrine and metabolic changes and disturbances of bodily functi ...[+++]on. The symptoms include restricted dietary choice, excessive exercise, induced vomiting and purgation, and use of appetite suppressants and diuretics.

Policy Research Issues for Canadian Youth: Transition Experiences of Young Women

Committee on the Status of Women and Girls in Employment

Daphne III Programme | specific programme Fight against violence (Daphne III) | Specific Programme to prevent and combat violence against children, young people and women and to protect victims and groups at risk

chronic active hepatitis | chronic aggressive hepatitis | lupoid hepatitis | autoimmune hepatitis | plasma cell hepatitis | subacute hepatitis | acute juvenile cirrhosis

A quarter century of change: young women in Canada in the 1970's and today

The Bloc does not have any aboriginal women in its caucus. What is more, it talks about women and children and protecting Canadian and Quebec women and children, but it was the Bloc members who voted against our very important bill on the trafficking of our women and children.

I wonder, though, whether or not those decisions are best left to the candidates, because I put forward that people who are in youth homes, or battered women's shelters, or any of these types of institutions, vote too.