Abstract

The activity of non-governmental women’s organizations in Canada for seven decades of their history on the Canadian land. Experience indicated associations assessed as useful for study and use in the formation and functioning of civil society in contemporary Ukraine. It is argued that civil society is now turning into a significant factor of the country, from the existence and operation of which depends on the state and prospects of its civilizational identity. Civil society development in Ukraine, the mechanisms of its formation and functioning is perhaps the most urgent problem that continues its existence in Ukrainian statehood. The problem of civilizational choice of the country ‘s survival in today’s complex stage of the crisis without exaggeration depends on making a compromise between the three main operating forces: government, opposition and civil society. New powerful political factor in the life of modern Ukraine was just civil society that declared itself the right to own and resolve the fate of the Ukrainian state and its citizens. The process of transition from colonial status of the society with its geopolitical, geocultural, after all, the uncertainty of the new civilization as a society. While the final prediction for the future of Ukraine or the EU, or in the Customs Union can not give one. But, obviously, that resolved the issue without thought of civil society of the country did not succeed. Therefore, any experience of its formation and functioning in Ukraine is important. Last but not least is relevant to the NGOs Ukrainian diaspora, including the Canadian. In contemporary Ukraine women associations have actively made themselves. It is worth exploring the NGO activities in Canada, where the organization had and have a significant impact on the lives of Ukrainian diaspora actively contributing to the preservation of Ukrainian identity, and a well-known general public of Canada thanks to their work. Arguably, among NGOs whose activities are an important contribution to the formation of a positive image of Ukrainians in the world, absolute attention deserves activities of women’s organizations in Canada, united under the leadership of Ukrainian Canadian Committee. Activity of Ukrainian women on Canadian ground, conscious of their citizenship and commitment to Ukrainian case allows to qualify activities of women’s organizations such as the women’s movement.