Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
This webpage is a centralized hub for resources related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from organizations across British Columbia, as well as key national and international research. We will continue to update this webpage as further resources become available.
Best Practices for Writing Gladue Reports and Understanding Gladue Principles
This guide provides a set of guidelines to support Gladue report writers in preparing reports to submit at bail and sentencing hearings for Indigenous people.
Basic Income, Gender & Disability
The purpose of this report is to inform current thinking about the potential of a basic income program to contribute to the full and effective participation and inclusion of disabled women and gender-diverse disabled people in society.
National Inuit Action Plan on Missing and Murdered Inuit Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people
The National Inuit Action Plan is dedicated to missing and murdered Inuit women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people and their families, friends and communities that have experienced the relentless tragedies of have their relatives go missing or be murdered.
Gladue and You
This plain language booklet describes Gladue principles that judges must apply at bail or sentencing when an Indigenous person is charged with a crime. It explains: Gladue factors; colonialism and systemic discrimination; how Gladue principles are applied in court; the difference between Gladue submissions and Gladue reports.
Are We Ready to Change? A Lawyer’s Guide to Keeping Women and Children Safe in BC’s Family Law System
This report, with a focus on the voices of women survivors, provide an opportunity for lawyers and the legal system in BC to improve its response to family violence. It also provides some practical considerations for lawyers around screening and safety planning, and highlights areas of the Family Law Act that would benefit from thoughtful analysis, law reform, and/or strategic litigation.
2SLGBTQQIA+ Sub-Working Group: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Final Report
This work centers 2SLGBTQQIA+ relatives and kin who are currently missing or went missing and were later found murdered, illustrating the history and background of how Two-Spirit and gender and sexually diverse Indigenous people have been affected by genocide and gendericide.
24 Hour Census Report (2020): A One-Day Look at Women’s Transition Housing and Support Programs in BC
This snapshot offers some insight into the realities of Women’s Transition Housing and Supports Programs in BC. In just 24 hours in 2020, 844 people were sheltered or supported in-person or remotely through Transition Housing Programs across BC. An additional 77 people were still waiting for services or had to be turned away.
Resetting Normal: Building Intersectional Gender Justice in Post-Pandemic Canada
Resetting Normal is a series of reports that explore risks to human rights exposed by the pandemic and propose new ways to build a gender equal Canada in pandemic recovery efforts.