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.
Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: Current Knowledge about Program Effectiveness
This report was written for Women and Gender Equality Canada to highlight what we know about the effective prevention of violence directed at women and girls in a Canadian context.
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.
Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence
The toolkit provides a community-based approach to ending interpersonal violence. We wanted to turn back to our communities and strengthen community-based systems to resist violence in all of its forms.
Courage Catalysts: Creating Consent Culture on Campus
This toolkit was designed by diverse student advocates who were supporting our friends in the aftermath of GBV on campus, or navigating sexualized violence on campus ourselves.
Consent: How You Can Support Students in Learning About Consent and Boundaries
This document is a guide for educators to help them support their students in learning about consent and boundaries within their relationships.
Implementation of the Right to Housing For Women, Girls, and Gender Diverse People in Canada
The purpose of this report is to inform the Federal Housing Advocate on key housing challenges and housing rights violations experienced by women, girls, and gender diverse people in Canada. There is a severe lack of affordable and appropriate housing that meets the needs of diverse women and women-led families, exacerbated by systemic issues that keep many trapped in poverty and struggling to obtain housing assistance.
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence Against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice System
Pauktuutit conducted a research project with Inuit women and justice-related service providers to study the criminal justice system’s response to gender-based violence in Inuvialuit, Nunavut, and Nunavik to increase awareness and understanding of the needs, challenges, and service gaps many Inuit women face.
Breaking the Silence: Supporting Survivors of Police Sexual Violence
This is a curriculum for sexual assault service providers on police sexual violence that is intended to accompany Interrupting Criminalization’s report Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence – What We Know and What We Can Do About It.