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Prostitution Video 1 #NotAChoice #EqualityModelCanada

October 5, 2021

Prostitution Front Line

Prostitution Video 2 #NotAChoice #EqualityModelCanada

October 5, 2021

Front Line Prostitution

Prostitution Video 3 #NotAChoice #EqualityModelCanada

October 5, 2021

Front Line Prostitution

Opinion: Canadian company that owns Pornhub must be held accountable

In recent years we have talked to a growing number of women who have been blackmailed and threatened by their former male partners that they will distribute intimate photographs and videos unless she agrees to have sex with him again or resume their relationship. Women in our transition house tell us that the abusive husbands whom they are fleeing have profited off pornographic videos of them for years and continue to do so.

By Sophia Hladik

September 25, 2021

Pornography Front Line

Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission to the British Columbia Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act

Even with a feminist advocate on her side, the vast majority of women will be failed by the criminal justice system. In 2019, although sexual assaults reported to police rose from 4,419 in 2018 to 5,553 in 2019 (a 25.7% increase), charges laid actually decreased in that same period from 1,786 to 1,768.

By Laurel McBride

April 30, 2021

Criminal Justice System Front Line

Bill C-3: Vancouver Rape Relief’s submission to the Senate Committee on Legal And Constitutional Affairs

To uphold the principles of transparency and accountability we must have all judgements in sexual assault trials transcribed and posted online so that judges’ decisions in sexual assault cases will be available for public scrutiny

By Ashani Montgomery & Hilla Kerner

March 31, 2021

Criminal Justice System Front Line

Opinion: Male violence against Asian women is an ever-present reality

Many of the Asian women who call us don’t speak English. They did not find out about us through an internet search or seeing an interview with us in the media. Somehow, they got our phone number from someone who knew that we could help them. Regardless of the reason they call us, Asian women often tell us that they’re constantly propositioned to have sex for money by men that they know, as well as men who are strangers to them.

By Hilla Kerner

March 28, 2021

Front Line Women of Colour

45 Feminist Demands to End Male Violence against Women

Vancouver Rape Relief’s submission for Canada’s National Action Plan on “Gender Based Violence”

March 8, 2021

Front Line Violence Against Women

45 Feminist Demands to End Male Violence against Women (short version)

March 8, 2021

Front Line Violence Against Women

Application for the City of Vancouver: Direct Social Services Grant Program

Our program provides women living in Greater Vancouver a safe place for grouping: to break the silence and isolation around the violence committed against them, to offer and receive emotional support, to plan and strategize their responses to men's violence. Grouping together after leaving an abusive man, after exiting prostitution, or after being raped is an act of resistance against the abusers' tactic of silencing and isolating women.

March 7, 2021

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