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.
Evaluating Canada’s Sex Work Laws: The Case for Repeal
This report provides a history of the litigation that struck down previous sex work laws in Canada and the approach taken in drafting current legislation. It gives an overview of the impacts that current laws are having on sex workers across Canada and why the law is unconstitutional.
A Roundtable on Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition: Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard and Monica Forrester
This roundtable links sex workers’ issues to race and sexuality, police brutality, and prison abolition, bringing different movements together and discussing what should be done to support the rights of sex workers.
Violence Against Women Facts in Canada Infographic
This infographic contains some valuable statistics pertaining to Violence Against Women and Children in 2016.
Violence on the Land Violence on our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence
This report reveals how many Indigenous communities are sites of chemical manufacturing, while others have seen an introduction of man camps to work for the gas and oil industry. The impacts of environmental violence are coupled with sexual violence, murders and disappearances, reproductive illnesses and toxic exposure, and threats to Indigenous lifeways.
Right to be Safe: Creating Inclusive Services for Women with Disabilities Experiencing Violence
The resource booklet provides service providers in the violence prevention and response sector with information on statistics about violence against women with disabilities, understanding barriers people with disabilities face, communication and interaction tips about people with a range of disabilities, and accessibility planning tips.
Islamic Perspective on Engaging Men & Boys to End Violence in the Family
White Ribbon and Canadian Council of Muslim Women partnered to create the Engaging Men & Boys to End Violence in the Family Project, focused on engaging and encouraging men and boys from Muslim communities to end violence in the family.
Video of Clear Skies – A Family Violence Story
Clear Skies is an engaging new comic and video which tells the story of Marnie and her kids who live with family violence. With the support of her community, and by learning her legal options, Marnie is able to leave an abusive relationship.
High Stakes: The Impacts of Child Care on the Human Rights of Women and Children
At the heart of the High Stakes report are diverse women’s real-life stories about how the inadequacy of the child care system in B.C has impacted them and their children—undermining their safety, well-being, and human rights. The report analyzes the legal implications of these harms through the lenses of human rights, constitutional, and international law.