Karen Schucher has been involved in equality and human rights litigation for many years. She was co-counsel in the Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario human rights litigation and worked on numerous equality rights issues on behalf of trade unions in her former practice with Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish. Karen Schucher was counsel to LEAF in the NAPE intervention and is currently a member of LEAF’s National Legal Committee. She has written on a wide range of human rights issues and is actively involved with women’s organizations working on violence against women, most currently with Canadian Chiapanecas Justice for Women (CCJW), a recently-established North/ South working group.