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Help For Women
Women! Has a man in your life ever: Hit you? Pushed you around? Called you names, such as stupid, ugly, crazy, nagging, etc? Stopped you from seeing your friends or leaving the house? Done things to frighten you or threaten you? You do not deserve to be treated this way!
Call Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. Rape Relief operates a transition house for women and their children and a 24 crisis line for women who are trying to prevent or escape male violence.
For help, information, and/or a place to stay while you get your plans together call us:
604.872.8212
All our services are free and confidential.
Read more about our services.
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Women Volunteers Needed
VRRWS needs women who are interested in volunteering for the 24 Hour Crisis Line or the Transition House for Women & their Children.
Training sessions are Tuesday evenings. For more information and a training interview, please call us at
604.872.8212.
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The Heretics a movie about a New York Feminist Art Collective
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Vancouver's Rape Relief and Women's Shelter is slamming the VPD's report into the Robert Pickton murders, saying apologies and hindsight aren't good enough. It's renewing a demand for a public inquiry into the Downtown Eastside's missing women.
Posted in news1130.com
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of the mistakes in the cases of the Missing Women and the Pickton Murder, by Lee Lakeman, August 22, 2010
In a four hundred page report in the cases of women missing from Vancouver, Doug LePard of the VPD reveals year after year of failure after failure to arrest or aid the conviction of killer "Willie" Pickton. The astounding foolishness and multiple missteps revealed in this internal review were leaked through the B.C. Attorney General’s office, where the review has languished unattended and hidden for five years... But only now in the aftermath of the unresolved murder cases, in the heat and light created by the mourning families of mutilated women, in the rage of equality advocates and in the demand for a full public inquiry do we see this review...
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10 Things Men and Boys Can Do to Stop Human Trafficking posted on MS. Blog
Human trafficking is modern day slavery. It is the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel another person to provide labor or commercial sex against their will, and it is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world...
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The Swedish Approach to Trafficking, Prostitution and the Sex Industry
from Trafficking, Prostitution and the Sex Industry: The Nordic Legal Model, by Janice Raymond posted in Portside.org, July 20th, 2010
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Toews's quibbling about use of term 'rape' does nothing to stop it
Commentary by Constance Backhouse (Professor of Law, University of Ottawa) on Public Safety Minister’s suggestion to put "rape" back into the criminal code.
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