Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Barriers to Reporting or Disclosing Violence and Seeking Help for Immigrant and Refugee Women
This infographic provides examples of a range of systemic and social barriers that immigrant or refugee women may encounter that prevent them from getting appropriate help or from disclosing violence.
Warning Signs Of High Risk Factors For When Women Are Killed
The Domestic Violence Death Review Committee of Ontario reviewed 267 domestic violence cases between 2003-2015 that resulted in domestic homicide (i.e. the abuser killed the person he was abusing). This resource details the 10 most common risk factors.
Domestic Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women
In this edition of Cultures West, the collection of stories illustrate that domestic violence is a serious social issue with devastating impacts on immigrant children, women, families and communities, and also how How federal and provincial immigration policies can put immigrant and refugee women at risk.
Police Abuse of Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan and Failures to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence
This submission outlines Human Rights Watch’s findings on police interactions with Indigenous women in Saskatchewan based on six weeks of fact-finding carried out from January to July 2016, in addition to interviews and correspondence with police authorities and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.
Violence on the Land Violence on our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence
This report reveals how many Indigenous communities are sites of chemical manufacturing, while others have seen an introduction of man camps to work for the gas and oil industry. The impacts of environmental violence are coupled with sexual violence, murders and disappearances, reproductive illnesses and toxic exposure, and threats to Indigenous lifeways.
High Stakes: The Impacts of Child Care on the Human Rights of Women and Children
At the heart of the High Stakes report are diverse women’s real-life stories about how the inadequacy of the child care system in B.C has impacted them and their children—undermining their safety, well-being, and human rights. The report analyzes the legal implications of these harms through the lenses of human rights, constitutional, and international law.
Principles for Conducting Research in the Jane Finch Community
The principles in this document are intended to be used as a guide to support and strengthen research relationships between academic institutions, researchers, students, community members, residents and organizations in the Jane Finch community. The principles summarize the Jane Finch Community Research Partnership’s expectations regarding respectful and ethical behaviour by researchers who work in the community.
2016 National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Outcomes and Priorities for Action to Prevent and Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
This brief describes the outcomes and priorities for action in preventing and addressing violence against Inuit, Métis, First Nations women and girls in Canada, as envisioned by the second MMIWG National Roundtable which gathered in 2016.