Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Senior Women Face Disproportionate Rates of Family Violence
The 2021 Statistics Canada report on police-reported violence against seniors (65-89) reveals that senior women are more likely to face family violence than senior men. This includes violence from spouses, children, siblings, and other family, like grandchildren.
Right to Housing and Violence Against Women
This brief explores the connections between the right to housing, homelessness, and violence against women, and highlights the key barriers survivors face in obtaining safe, adequate and permanent housing.
Punished By Design: The Criminalization of Trans & Queer Incarcerated Survivors
This report details how queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people are both disproportionately impacted by the criminal legal system and significantly more likely to be survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence.
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.
Decolonizing Family Law Through Trauma Informed Practices
This report focuses on improving the legal system and access to justice in BC through decolonizing family law. Areas of improvement identified by nearly all experts consulted were “the need to expand the legal system’s understanding of family law to make room for Indigenous laws and concepts, the need for education, and the need for lawyers and other legal system professionals to engage in trauma-informed practice.”
Understanding the Extreme Intoxication Defence
This brief provides context for current sexual violence policies on post-secondary campuses and highlights the critical role of collective advocacy for bringing about change on campuses across Canada.
Resetting Normal Report 5: The Impacts of COVID-19 on First Nations, Metis and Inuit Youth
This report sheds light on the realities of Indigenous girls, two-spirit, and gender diverse youth. It explores the impact of the pandemic on Indigenous youth and gender-based violence, and shares recommendations for how to better serve First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth moving forward.
Parents’ Rights, Kids’ Rights
This is a parent’s guide to child protection law in BC and explains what happens if the Director of Child Protection has concerns about a child’s safety or plans to remove a child from the family home.