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Ending Violence Against Women: Canada Needs Two National Action Plans

For years, Women’s Shelters Canada, along with many other organizations, has been calling for a National Action Plan (NAP) on Violence Against Women (VAW). Canada needs a NAP on VAW to ensure that women in all areas of the country have access to comparable levels of services and protection. A NAP would ensure a shared understanding […]

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UN Adds Pressure on Canada re National Action Plan on Violence Against Women

WSC and shelter staff with Dubravka Šimonovic during her visit This morning in Geneva, Dubravka Šimonovic, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (VAW), presented the report on her official visit to Canada to the UN Human Rights Council. In Ottawa, WSC executive director Lise Martin and representatives from other Canadian women’s rights

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Women’s Shelters Canada Welcomes Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Yesterday, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released their final report, Reclaiming Power and Place. As the National Inquiry states on their website, “The Final Report is comprised of the truths of more than 2,380 family members, survivors of violence, experts and Knowledge Keepers shared over two years of cross-country

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Advocacy Works! Indigenous Women’s Voices Heard

Sometimes advocacy really does work! Women’s Shelters Canada has been advocating for the Standing Committee on the Status of Women to hear from more Indigenous women’s organizations, after only one such organization appeared as a witness during the nine scheduled meetings. As mentioned in our last blog, Sheila Malcolmson (NDP) brought forth a motion to

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Hopeful to Hear More Indigenous Women’s Voices

The last scheduled meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women’s study of VAW shelters/transition houses took place on Monday, November 19. It was split into two one-hour slots: the first saw witness presentations from Eva Kratochvil, Survivor and Frontline Worker, Hiatus House; Anita Olsen Harper, Research Consultant, National Aboriginal Circle Against Family

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