Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Breaking the Silence: Supporting Survivors of Police Sexual Violence
This is a curriculum for sexual assault service providers on police sexual violence that is intended to accompany Interrupting Criminalization’s report Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence – What We Know and What We Can Do About It.
In Conversation: Reproductive Injustice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women
This video details how federal incarceration impedes reproductive justice by restricting access to health services and by destroying family connections for incarcerated survivors.
COVID-19, Substance Use, and Intimate Partner Violence
A series of briefs that examines the role of COVID-19 and substance use in intimate partner violence among women. The goal of using this knowledge is to support services providers in how they can better respond to issues of COVID-19 and resulting containment measures, IPV and substance use.
Fact Sheet: The Criminalization & Overincarceration of Indigenous Women
This sheet provides an overview on the overincarceration of Indigenous women in federal prisons, as well as its interconnected causes , which include the over-policing and under-protection of Indigenous communities, systemic socioeconomic marginalization, and ongoing colonial policies and institutions.
Fact Sheet: Strip Searches in Federal Prisons Designated for Women
Strip searches are often experienced as sexual assault and can have detrimental effects on incarcerated women, non-binary, and two sprit people. This fact sheet provides an overview on this pervasive issue in federal prisons in Canada designated for women.
Recommendations for Improving Policing and Police Accountability for Girls
This is a submission to B.C’s Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act highlighting state failures to protect girls and young women from violence as the root cause of girls’ homelessness, institutionalization and criminalization. This submission calls for the decriminalization of teen girls entirely, operating from the knowledge that their involvement in the criminal justice system is rooted in their efforts to protect themselves.
Fact Sheet: Sexual Violence and Coercion in Federal Prisons Designated for Women
This fact sheet provides an overview of key facts and findings related to sexual violence in federal prisons designated for women, and concludes with CAEFS’ recommendations for addressing this issue.
Examining the Intersections of Anti-Asian Racism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada
This backgrounder examines the unique experiences of violence and harassment faced by Asian women, the historical background of anti-Asian racism in Canada, contemporary manifestations of anti-Asian racism and gender-based violence, and harmful impacts of criminal and immigration law which disproportionately affect Asian women in the service and sex industries.