Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: A Mapping of Relevant Laws, Policies and Justice System Components Across Canada
This ebook provides a survey of legislation, key government policies, and justice system components that apply to domestic violence across jurisdictions in Canada, including a survey of different federal laws, provincial laws, territorial laws and Indigenous jurisdiction.
Criminalized Black Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
This study addresses Black women’s victimization and criminalization by examining the ways in which criminalized Black women’s intersecting identities of race, class, and gender influence how they perceive, experience, and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV).
Contextualizing the Experiences of Black Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
This study examines Black women’s experiences with the police in the context of IPV, from the perspectives of Black women. Issues of race, racism, oppression, subordination, and their intersections with Black women’s experiences of IPV, and their encounters with the police are explored.
Laadliyan Gender Based Violence Toolkit
A toolkit by and for the South Asian community to discuss and end gender based violence. This toolkit was produced by Laadliyan: Celebrating & Empowering Daughters as part of its mission to inspire South Asian girls and women of all ages to become empowered individuals through engagement, education and awareness.
Hear My Cry: Breaking the Code of Silence around Intimate Partner Violence among Black Women in and Beyond Midlife
In this qualitative study, researchers utilized an intersectional approach to examine how IPV is experienced and managed by Black Nova Scotian women in and beyond midlife and their experiences of seeking support.
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.
Navigating Concurrent Legal Processes with Survivors of Domestic Violence
Many women who leave abusive relationships end up dealing with multiple legal processes as they try to rebuild their lives – a family court process to determine decision-making responsibilities and parenting time, navigating immigration issues, a criminal case against their abuser. Learn how these different processes interact with each other.
Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: Current Knowledge about Program Effectiveness
This report was written for Women and Gender Equality Canada to highlight what we know about the effective prevention of violence directed at women and girls in a Canadian context.