Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Declarations of Truth: Documenting Insights from Survivors of Violence
This report researches and proposes a new justice framework that is survivor led, accountability-driven, and healing-centred.
COVID-19: Needs and Risk Assessment of Sex Workers in Metro Vancouver
This report is based on 95 responses from sex workers living around the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (DTES) who were surveyed about the effects of the pandemic on the lives of sex workers.
Courage to Act: Developing a National draft Framework to Address and Prevent Gender-Based Violence at Post-Secondary Institutions in Canada
The “Courage to Act” report captures promising practices, key policy areas, and prevention plans as the foundation of a framework to address and prevent gender-based violence at post-secondary institutions in Canada.
Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services
A community-based research project to better understand and raise awareness on the experiences of Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors accessing gender-based violence services in B.C.
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.
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.
Canada: Preventing and Combating Racial Profiling
The report details First Nations’ experiences of racial profiling and racialized policing as a crucial lens to understand discrimination against Indigenous peoples, and provides suggestions to prevent and counter racial profiling.
Canada: Equality and Non-Discrimination with a Focus on Indigenous Women and Girls and Intersecting Forms of Discrimination
This report details the Union of BC Indian Chiefs submission to the the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women with an emphasis on how Indigenous women and girls living on Turtle Island experience destructive and intersecting forms of gender and racial discrimination that have been fostered, strengthened, and protected by colonial structures, institutions, and legal orders.