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.
Intersecting Oppressions Shape Experiences of IPV Faced by Women with Disabilities
This toolkit and infographic shares how an intersectional approach to violence against women with disabilities requires exploring the ways sexism and ableism interact with each other, and with others forms of oppression like colonialism and heteronormativity.
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Public Transportation and Vulnerabilities in Rural and Remote Canada
This knowledge synthesis project explores how remote and rural places face a complex array of social, political and economic obstacles in their access to sustainable, accessible, and appropriate public transportation and in exercising mobility rights.
Building Resilience in Children Exposed to Violence: Broadening our Understanding from a Decolonizing and Social Justice Perspective
This webinar reframes the concept of resilience from an individualistic model to a social justice and anti-racist model when supporting children who are exposed to violence.
Health and Well-Being Among Indigenous Trans, Two-Spirit and Non-Binary People
The Trans PULSE Canada project collected survey data from 2,873 trans and non-binary people in 2019. Of this number, 252 survey respondents indicated being Indigenous. This report presents results from the first national all-ages data on health and well-being among Indigenous trans, two- spirit, and non-binary people in Canada
The RCMP: Its Culture and Future (FAFIA Webinar)
Based on the report of the same name, the Canadian Feminist AlIiance for International Action (FAFIA) hosted an online webinar to examine the toxic culture of racism, misogyny, and homophobia in the RCMP.
Reproductive (In)Justice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women
This report highlights how incarceration as a new parent and / or during the period of reproductive age is a barrier to being able to choose to parent and to parent children you do have. By preventing reproduction, dislocating children from their parents to the foster care system, and placing mothers at greater risk to their health and survival, the incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada meets the United Nations (1948) definition of genocide.
Canada: Equality and Non-Discrimination with a Focus on Indigenous Women and Girls and Intersecting Forms of Discrimination
This report details the Union of BC Indian Chiefs submission to the the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women with an emphasis on how Indigenous women and girls living on Turtle Island experience destructive and intersecting forms of gender and racial discrimination that have been fostered, strengthened, and protected by colonial structures, institutions, and legal orders.
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence Against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice System
Pauktuutit conducted a research project with Inuit women and justice-related service providers to study the criminal justice system’s response to gender-based violence in Inuvialuit, Nunavut, and Nunavik to increase awareness and understanding of the needs, challenges, and service gaps many Inuit women face.