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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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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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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