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.
Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook
This workbook is designed fo first or second-year sociology of gender or gender studies courses, focusing on the Canadian context. It is divided into five topics – Theory and Concepts, Institutions, Work, Family and Intimate Relationships, and Bodies and Health – which mirror the content of a course in sociology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, SOCI 2240: Gender in Canada.
BC Gender Equality Report Card 2021/2022
The 2021/2022 Gender Equality Report Card assesses BC’s progress in advancing gender equality in economic security and access to healthcare.
Reproductive Coercion Against Intimate Partners: A Violation of Rights
This backgrounder provides details on reproductive coercion in intimate relationships. Reproductive coercion is a form of coercive control that involves removing an individual’s autonomy to make decisions about their health, body, and sexual activity.
A Long Way To Go: Collective Struggles & Dreams of Reproductive Justice in Canada
The contributions in this anthology provide unique perspectives on reproductive justice in Canada. Contributors have drawn on their own lived experiences and the experiences of the communities of which they are a part to share what reproductive justice means to them.
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.
In Conversation: Reproductive Injustice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women
This video details how federal incarceration impedes reproductive justice by restricting access to health services and by destroying family connections for incarcerated survivors.
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.
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.