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.
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its mission to Canada
This report contains the findings of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its visit to Canada from 17 to 21 October 2016. The report presents its findings on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance faced by people of African descent in Canada.
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.
Follow Up on the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
This report is the provincial government’s official follow up to the provincial Missing Commision of Inquiry, which made 63 recommendations plus two urgent measures to increase the safety and save lives of vulnerable women and girls in British Columbia.
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.
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent six years travelling to all parts of Canada to hear from Indigenous peoples who had been taken from their families as children, forcibly if necessary, and placed for much of their childhoods in residential schools. This volume is a summary of the discussion and findings contained in the Commission’s final multi-volume report.
Change in Our Back Yard: A Peer Study About the Lives of Sex Workers in the DTES
This report is a groundbreaking peer-led community consultation and survey process in which survival sex workers came together to create and produce research on the lives of woman-identified sex workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.