Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence: A Toolkit for Survivors and Supporters
In situations of domestic violence, survival can become criminalized in unexpected and chilling ways. What can concrete support for intimate partner violence survivors look like from a prison abolitionist perspective? What can it look like in practice to support survivors while being acutely aware of both the dangers of abuse and the overwhelming violence of the criminal legal system?
Mothers Leaving Abusive Partners: Family Law Information
This guide is for women with children who’ve been abused by their intimate partner, including a spouse or someone they were never in a relationship with but share a child with.
Working with Your Legal Aid Lawyer
This backgrounder describes client and legal aid lawyer responsibilities to help them both know what to expect from a legal aid contract.
Sponsorship Breakdown
Sponsorship Breakdown is for permanent residents who need help when the person sponsoring them in Canada will no longer support them and they are unable to support themselves.
Is that Legal? What the Law Says about Online Harassment and Abuse
This resource is to help youth become safer online when they use social media. It describes four online situations they might find themselves in: taking intimate images; sharing intimate images; cyberstalking, and sexual exploitation.
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its mission to Canada
This report contains the findings of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its visit to Canada from 17 to 21 October 2016. The report presents its findings on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance faced by people of African descent in Canada.
Live Safe, End Abuse
Live Safe, End Abuse is for people leaving an abusive partner. The resource contains information on what abuse is, how people can plan for their safety and protect their children, and who can help.