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The Women's Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution: Present Before the Court, Outside the Court, and Every Day For Women's Equality

Date: 
Thursday, June 13, 2013
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"We want more than prostitution for women. We want safety, equality and liberty for ourselves and for all women and we will keep fighting until we win it."
The Women's Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution: Present Before the Court, Outside the Court, and Every Day For Women's Equality ...
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Local Rape Crisis Centre to make arguments in landmark prostitution case at the Supreme Court of Canada

Date: 
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - Sunday, June 16, 2013
Quote: 
Lee Lakeman: "It is not acceptable to further punish these women with the law but neither is it acceptable to abandon them to the predatory behavior of johns, pimps and bawdy house owners."
For immediate release June 12, 2013   Local Rape Crisis Centre to make arguments in landmark prostitution case   ...
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Women’s Groups: Men do not have the Right to Buy and Sell Women

Date: 
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Quote: 
"Prostitution is not what we want for ourselves our mothers, grandmothers, aunties, sisters or daughters.“
 [VANCOUVER, B.C) -  May 29, 2013 –  In a press conference held today by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter and EVE (formerly Exploited Voices now Educating),&nbsp ...

Vancouver Rape Relief intends to bring a unique position on Prostitution to the Supreme Court of Canada

Date: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter,as part of the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution— has been granted leave to intervene in the case.
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Equality Seeking Women’s Groups WANT MORE FOR WOMEN

Date: 
Friday, March 8, 2013
Quote: 
We want more then prostitution for women.
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Dec 6, 2012 – National Day of Action on Violence Against Women: British Columbia Refuses to Act

Date: 
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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On Dec 6, 2012, the National day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter is outraged by the Provincial Government’s refusal
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LOCAL MEN PLEDGE TO END RAPE

Date: 
Friday, July 6, 2012
Quote: 
"Since men are the perpetrators of violence against women, it's only fair that we share the responsibility for stopping it".
For Immediate Release LOCAL MEN PLEDGE TO END RAPE VANCOUVER, July 6, 2012 - A group of local men have initiated a new campaign to end rape in the lower mainland: I Pledge to End Rape. The campaign is calling on men to commit to three principles: to have the explicit consent of their sexual partners, to encourage other men to do the same and tosupport the work of rape crisis centers by monetary donation. ...

Vancouver Rape Relief Condemns Prosecution of Battered Woman in the Supreme Court of Canada

Date: 
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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“In British Colombia alone, 50 women were killed by their male spouse in the past 5 years. These are extreme examples of state abandonment of women victim to male violence.
For Immediate Release Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter Condemns the Prosecution of Battered Woman in the Supreme Court of Canada PRINT VERSION ...

The Women's Equality and Security Coalition Denounces the Missing Women's Inquiry Policy Forums

Date: 
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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WESC is deeply shocked by the way the Inquiry has unfolded, including by recent revelations of disciminatory attitudes towards women inside the Inquiry itself....
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