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.
Trauma-and-Violence-Informed Care Toolkit for Reducing Stigma Related to Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections
The prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) are important public health goals. However, stigma and discrimination in health and social service settings often create barriers to accessing STBBI services.
BC Gender Equality Report Card 2019/2020
The BC Gender Equality Report Card 2019/2020 assesses the B.C government’s progress in advancing human rights and gender justice between December 2018 and early April 2020. It explores six issue areas: access to justice; economic security; freedom from gender-based violence; health care; justice for people who are criminalized; and the rights of parents, children, and youth.
Mental Health Supports for Racialized Women at Risk of Gender-based Violence. A Toolkit for Service Providers and Advocates
The toolkit provides information to service providers, advocacy groups and activists serving gender based violence survivors to better address the needs of racialized women.
COVID-19 BC Gender Equality Report Card
The COVID-19 BC Gender Equality Report Card evaluates the provincial government’s pandemic response in six issue areas: access to justice, economic security, freedom from gender-based violence, health care, justice for people who are criminalized, and the rights of parents, children, and youth.
Filipino Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 and the Importance of Race-Based Analysis
This resource highlights why it is important for any analysis of COVID-19 to take race into account. It is crucial for policymakers to get race-based data to understand the risks that different communities face when it comes to COVID-19; as well as the ways in which migrant workers like those in the Filipino community are impacted.
Knowing Your Rights Toolkit: Sexual and Reproductive Health
This toolkit was developed in response to the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women and the call for Indigenous-specific services and supports, including Indigenous-led education on patient rights and responsibilities and informed consent.
Black Women in Canada
This short report examines the specific experience of Black women and girls in Canada and is part of a larger project examining Canada’s progress on achieving women’s rights and gender equality.
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is comprised of the truths of more than 2,380 family members, survivors of violence, experts and Knowledge Keepers shared over two years of cross-country public hearings and evidence gathering.