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 – A People’s Tribunal: Every Woman’s Right to Speak Free from Online Hate
Women of diverse backgrounds highlight the online abuse they experience, the broader implications it has had on their lives, and their strategies and resilience in dealing with malicious intrusions and threats.
#CallItFemicide 2021 Report
The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) has released data for 2021, showing that 173 women and girls were violently killed in Canada last year.
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.
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Canada
This anthology ffers a collection of briefs from a diverse group of experts in the academic, healthcare, and voluntary sectors. These briefs provide greater detail regarding the impact of COVID-19 on women, girls, and gender-diverse people, recognizing the distinct impacts within this group. The diversity of voices and perspectives in this collection serves as a reminder that Canadian women and gender-diverse persons had distinct experiences during the pandemic.
Webinar – A People’s Tribunal: Every Woman’s Right to Speak Free from Online Hate
The epidemic of online hate is silencing important voices. Women, especially those with intersectional identities, are subjected to unprecedented harassment and abuse online. This Tribunal makes clear the urgency of our right to speak free from online hate.
Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: A Mapping of Relevant Laws, Policies and Justice System Components Across Canada
This ebook provides a survey of legislation, key government policies, and justice system components that apply to domestic violence across jurisdictions in Canada, including a survey of different federal laws, provincial laws, territorial laws and Indigenous jurisdiction.
Criminalized Black Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
This study addresses Black women’s victimization and criminalization by examining the ways in which criminalized Black women’s intersecting identities of race, class, and gender influence how they perceive, experience, and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV).
Contextualizing the Experiences of Black Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
This study examines Black women’s experiences with the police in the context of IPV, from the perspectives of Black women. Issues of race, racism, oppression, subordination, and their intersections with Black women’s experiences of IPV, and their encounters with the police are explored.