When the social isolation orders began in Canada, we knew women would die. We expected that the rate of women killed by a current or former intimate partner would increase, as it had in other countries. But we never expected what happened in Nova Scotia. We couldn’t predict that another disgruntled straight white man with […]
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Since March 13, the staff of Women’s Shelters Canada has been working hard – from home. We are fortunate that we are able to work from home to support the frontline workers keeping women and children safe in VAW shelters and transition houses across the country. Domestic violence and femicides don’t stop during a global
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Thank you to the 100 men who stepped forward to join Strengthening Ties – a ground-breaking effort to engage men in funding the work to end violence against women. Each of these men has financially pledged to support Women’s Shelters Canada for three years. Thank you to the men who were the first onboard and
The election has been called for October 21, and Women’s Shelters Canada is hard at work to ensure that ending violence against women is on the agenda! During the 2015 federal election campaign, we, along with 20+ collaborators, called on all parties to include the development and implementation of a National Action Plan (NAP) on
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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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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
Women’s Shelters Canada (WSC) welcomes the release of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women’s report, “Surviving Abuse and Building Resilience – A Study of Canada’s Systems of Shelters and Transition Houses Serving Women and Children Affected by Violence.” It was released last week on May 1, the same day WSC launched its report,
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“People in crisis recognize people in crisis.” In the last week, news of the city of Vancouver’s decision to gradually end a yearly grant to Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter resulted in emotions running high, with both sides calling the other discriminatory. Those against Vancouver Rape Relief believe its policies are transphobic, while VRR
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On Wednesday, the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability released its inaugural report on femicide in Canada in 2018. As soon as they did, I was waiting for the barrage of “What about men?!?” comments to pour in. And pour in they did. Comments ranged from pointing out that more men than women are killed in Canada a
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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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