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Protecting Private “Third Party” Records Rape Trials – Recent Developments in British Columbia

We have asserted and won in law at least that privacy is not just an individual victim’s right but a constitutional Charter right which is fundamental to women’s equality — to have access to a safe space where you can tell your experience of male violence is at the very core of every rape crisis centre’s existence.

By Louisa Russell
April 9, 2018
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Opinion: The Criminal Justice System is Failing Women

The way to shake the pillars of the rape structure is by holding men who commit violence against women accountable. So far, the criminal justice system has been failing to do so.

November 17, 2017
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Bill C-51: Vancouver Rape Relief’s submission to the Committee on Justice and Human Rights, House of Commons

We believe men can change, but not as long as they get permission and encouragement to violate our bodily integrity and autonomy. We need to shake the pillars of the rape structure and start by holding men who commit violence against women accountable. So far, the Canadian state and its criminal justice system has been failing to do so.

By Hilla Kerner
October 25, 2017
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Economic Security for Women in Canada: Submission to the Committee on the Status of Women, House of Commons

A Guaranteed Livable Income must be set high enough to meet adequate standards of living. It should provide all basic necessities such as a nutritious diet, safe adequate housing, transportation, and allow for discretionary spending to enhance full participation in community life.

By Maria Wong
August 15, 2017
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Professor S. Laurel Weldon on Combating Violence Against Women in Global Perspective
December 3, 2016
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Opinion: Fighting back on men’s violence against women

Exposing men’s violence against women is one of the most important achievements of the second wave of the women’s movement.

September 5, 2016
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Sisterhood on the Frontlines – The Truth as We Hear it from Indigenous Women

The crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame. The book Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada includes voices from the academic realms and grassroots and front-lines to speak on what has been identified by both the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations as a grave violation of the basic human rights of Aboriginal women and girls

By Summer Rain Bentham, Hilla Kerner, and Lisa Steacy
2016
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Indigenous WomenFront Line
More than Condoms and Sandwiches: A Feminist Investigation of the Contradictory Promises of Harm Reduction Approaches to Prostitution

This research explores the experiences and perspectives of women providing front-line service in organizations and agencies, both feminist and mainstream, whose mandate includes support for women experiencing violence, particularly women in prostitution.

By Erin Graham
August 2014
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ProstitutionFront Line
SISTER OUTSIDERS: Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Broadsheets

Shut out … but not shut up SISTER OUTSIDERS what you won’t hear inside the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

2012
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Food Politics in the Transition House
By Daisy Kler
December 1, 2012
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