Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Understanding how Immigration Policies Shape Gender-Based Violence Among Immigrants Who Have Temporary or Precarious Status
This webinar explores how immigration status impacts immigrants’ rights and challenges related to gender-based violence, and how to identify different forms of structural violence and interpersonal violence associated with precarious immigration status.
How Can I Help My Friend
This toolkit is to assist family members and friends who are wondering how best to support a loved one who is experiencing gender-based violence. If you have thought “What can I do to help my friend?,” then this resource is for you.
Making Space for Those Who Cause Harm
What models, strategies and perspective can be used to best respond in trauma-Informed and relationally accountable ways, so that investigations and their resolutions do not recreate or re-traumatize survivors or those who cause harm?
Expanding Our Frame: Deeping Our Demands for Safety and Healing for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence
Black women and girls’ stories, narratives, and experiences remain largely at the margins of mainstream #MeToo conversations. This policy brief centers the demands of Black survivors of sexual violence.
#SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis
This toolkit is a collection of tools, tips, lessons and resources developed through organizing experiences to support criminalized survivors through survivors defense committees. Survivor defense committees are critical because they help to secure freedom for criminalized survivors.
Drawing the Line on Sexual Violence: A Guide for Ontario Educators
Drawing the Line on Sexual Violence was written by Ontario educators in collaboration with White Ribbon to support teachers in raising awareness among their students about topics relating to sexual violence prevention.
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside
A short film that documents the history of the annual women’s memorial march in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. By focusing on the voices of women who live, love, and work in the Downtown Eastside this film debunks the sensationalism surrounding a neighbourhood deeply misunderstood, and celebrates the complex and diverse realities of women organizing for justice.
Hollow Water
This documentary profiles the Ojibway community of Hollow Water on the shores of Lake Winnipeg as they deal with an epidemic of sexual abuse in their midst. The Manitoba justice system was unsuccessful in ending the cycle of abuse, so the community brought the offenders home to face justice in a community healing and sentencing circle. Based on traditional practices, this unique model of justice reunites families and heals both victims and offenders.