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Domestic Femicide Foreseen: Media Roundup

Criminal Justice System Femicide Media Reports

Vancouver Rape Relief’s shadow report to CEDAW

We urge the committee to call on Canada to denounce and condemn any attempt to intimidate, threat, attack, silence and boycott women’s groups and individual women for speaking up on the unique experience and needs of female born women and girls and remind Canada that the “Attempts to silence women based on the views they hold regarding the scope of gender identity and sex in law and in practice and the rights associated with these, severely affects their participation in society in dignity and in safety, as well as their country’s prosperity and development.”

September 10, 2024

Criminal Justice System Femicide Women Only Space

Impact of Supreme Court of Canada’s “Jordan Decision” on Sexual Assault Cases: Media Roundup

September 4, 2024

Criminal Justice System Media Reports Rape

Opinion: Public Safety for Whom? When the Police are Perpetrators

By Laurel McBride

June 18, 2024

Criminal Justice System

Opinion: BC police forces must demonstrate zero tolerance for sexism within their ranks

Although efforts to increase the number of women in policing is worthwhile, it alone will not shift the toxic, misogynistic culture into one that values women’s contributions.

By Laurel McBride

January 9, 2024

Criminal Justice System

Potential Creation of a Coercive Control Offence: Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission to Justice Canada

By Laurel McBride and Dani Plumari

October 25, 2023

Criminal Justice System Femicide Front Line Transition House Violence Against Women Women's Poverty & Economic Security

Bill S-212: Vancouver Rape Relief’s submission to the Senate Committee on Legal And Constitutional Affairs

We see time and time again that men are charged with assault and uttering threats, and released back into the community with no meaningful oversight to ensure they do not make good on those threats. Last year in B.C., five women were murdered by a current or ex-male partner that were released on conditions to stay away from these women. These orders did not protect them. We desperately need robust mechanisms to ensure that women and their children are protected from men who pose grave risks to them.

By Laurel McBride

June 1, 2023

Criminal Justice System Front Line

Sex Trafficking of Women: The Women’s Equality Coalition’s Submission to the Committee on the Status of Women, House of Commons

The Women’s Equality Coalition believes that poor understanding and implementation of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA, 2014) is the main cause of inefficiencies in Canada’s efforts to end human trafficking. The Women’s Equality Coalition is encouraging the government to fully implement the Equality Model to protect and support women and girls in prostitution and those who are victims of human trafficking.

April 2023

Prostitution Criminal Justice System

BC Prosecution Service’s reply to Vancouver Rape Relief open letter regrading Chilliwack femicide

"The decision whether to oppose or consent to bail, and on what terms, requires Crown Counsel to consider and weigh the competing interests of the accused, the public, and victims. Crown Counsel cannot predict the future actions of the accused with certainty, and thus cannot eliminate all risks. "

July 28, 2022

Femicide Criminal Justice System

Vancouver Rape Relief’s Open Letter to Chilliwack Police and Crown

Chilliwack police and crown believed the victim. The perpetrator was charged. Why wasn’t he kept in custody until his trial? Why was he given the freedom to kill the women?

By Hilla Kerner

July 25, 2022

Femicide Criminal Justice System

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