Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence: BC Anti-Violence Worker Technology, Safety and Privacy Survey Summary
The report summarizes the scope and method of technology-facilitated gender-based violence experienced by women accessing anti-violence programs in B.C, and provides recommendations about the needs of women, children, youth and anti-violence workers when responding to technology-facilitated GBV.
Unacceptable: Responding to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
“Unacceptable: Responding to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence” defines and describes different forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and outlines steps people can take to address the violence including legal remedies.
Re-Envisioning PLEI Report
How can we facilitate learning about the law in a way that is grounded in the vision of community and supports efforts to end oppression? How can we equip people with honest information about the legal system so that they can choose the path that is best for them? This report pulls together guiding principles, impacts, limitations, and ethical practices for public legal education and information practitioners.
Evaluating Canada’s Sex Work Laws: The Case for Repeal
This report provides a history of the litigation that struck down previous sex work laws in Canada and the approach taken in drafting current legislation. It gives an overview of the impacts that current laws are having on sex workers across Canada and why the law is unconstitutional.
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.
Living Together or Living Apart
This backgrounder explains the basics of family law in BC, including common-Law relationships, marriage, separation, and divorce.
Tenant Survival Guide
TRAC’s popular Tenant Survival Guide is now an online Wikibook with fully searchable, and hyperlinking functions to key forms and resources.
Caught in the Carceral Web: Anti-Trafficking Laws and Policies and Their Impact on Migrant Sex Workers
This report evaluates the combined impact of four areas of law on migrant sex workers and places the regulation of migrant sex workers in a broader historical context; maps the specific laws that create this carceral web; reviews the literature on the impact of these laws on migrant sex workers; and provides a qualitative study of migrant sex workers and their advocates regarding the impact of these laws.