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.
#CallItFemicide 2020
Understanding sex/gender-related killings of women and girls in Canada, 2020 contains critical information that builds on earlier and ongoing work on femicide by highlighting issues that require further investigation and monitoring in the coming years.
Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along: How BC’s Family Law System Puts Survivors In Danger
Family violence can trap its victims, disproportionately women, in a web of social, legal, political and interpersonal realities which can be challenging for the legal system to address.
Gender-Based Violence in Rural, Remote & Northern Communities
This brief explores how gender-based violence takes place in ways that are both unique and disproportionately high in rural, remote, and northern communities across Canada.
COVID-19, Substance Use, and Intimate Partner Violence
A series of briefs that examines the role of COVID-19 and substance use in intimate partner violence among women. The goal of using this knowledge is to support services providers in how they can better respond to issues of COVID-19 and resulting containment measures, IPV and substance use.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan: Urban Path to Reclaiming Power and Place, Regardless of Residency
An Urban Sub-Working Group (USWG) developed this chapter of the National Action Plan to eliminate violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, in response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The USWG includes current and former members of the urban community from all regions of Canada, with lived experience as survivors, family members, and/or experts in the urban reality and violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.
Webinar: Trans Inclusion and Gender Diversity at Domestic Violence Shelters
This webinar explores how shelters across the country can work towards becoming safer and more inclusive spaces for trans and nonbinary people.
Who Can Stay in the Family Home on Reserve
This easy-to-understand, illustrated brochure gives basic information about the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act and explains your rights to the family home on reserve.
Feminist Intersectionality: A Primer
The Feminist Intersectionality Primer situates women’s experiences of inequality in a broad web of power relations and rooted in systems of power such as racism, classism, ableism, and heterosexism.