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.
Living Together or Living Apart
This backgrounder explains the basics of family law in BC, including common-Law relationships, marriage, separation, and divorce.
The Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada: A feminist analysis
The Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada: A feminist analysis” looks at the alt-right using an intersectional feminist analysis and focuses on the context in Canada, from its historic roots to its continued proliferation, and outlines collective actions that we can all take to counter the alt-right movement today.
Pathways for Engagement: Institutional and Program-level Considerations to Engage Men and Prevent Sexualized and Gender-Based Violence on Post-Secondary Campuses
Pathways to Engagement is a Framework designed to provide insight into how post-secondary institutions can design proactive, positive, and productive pathways to engage male-identified people in GBV prevention work on university and college campuses.
Tenant Survival Guide
TRAC’s popular Tenant Survival Guide is now an online Wikibook with fully searchable, and hyperlinking functions to key forms and resources.
Intimate Partner Violence in Canada, 2018: An Overview
This resource highlights that women disproportionately experience the most severe forms of IPV, such as being choked, being assaulted or threatened with a weapon, or being sexually assaulted. Additionally, women are more likely to experience more frequent instances of violence and more often report injury and negative physical and emotional consequences as a result of the violence.
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.
Reproductive (In)Justice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women
This report highlights how incarceration as a new parent and / or during the period of reproductive age is a barrier to being able to choose to parent and to parent children you do have. By preventing reproduction, dislocating children from their parents to the foster care system, and placing mothers at greater risk to their health and survival, the incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada meets the United Nations (1948) definition of genocide.
Cyber Dating Violence: What it Looks Like and How We Can Support Youth
The use of technology has transformed teen dating relationships and has created opportunities for cyber dating violence. This is a backgrounder on cyber-dating violence and some strategies that parents and educators can use to prevent and reduce cyber dating violence among youth.