Find fact sheets and documents addressing violence against women, violence against Aboriginal women, children and domestic violence, immigration, and sheltering. Information is provided from both national and international organizations.
Aboriginal Women
Violence in the lives of Aboriginal girls and young women CRI-VIFF, 2011
Children and Domestic Violence
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, 2012
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence PATHS, 2011
General
Violence Against Women: Facts Everyone Should Know UN Women, 2017
Violence Against Women in Canada Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2013
Et si c’était plus que de la chicane?
[available in French only] Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale, 2012
Intimate Partner Violence World Health Organization, 2012
Moving Women Out of Violence Canadian Women’s Foundation, 2012
How widespread is the problem of violence against women? Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters and Transition Houses, 2012
Violence Against Women UNiTE to End Violence Against Women, 2011
Violence Against Women Resources Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters and Transition Houses, 2012
Intimate partner violence during pregnancy World Health Organization, 2011
Immigration
Conditional Permanent Residence for Sponspored Spouses: What frontline workers should know Canadian Council for Refugees, 2013
Conditional Permanent Residence: Towards vulnerability and violence Canadian Council for Refugees, 2012
Older Women
The Abuse of Older Adults Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan
Sheltering
Sheltering Abused Women in Canada Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters and Transition Houses, 2012
Women with Disabilities and Deaf Women
Women with Disabilities and d/Deaf Women, Housing, and Violence Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, 2019