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Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission to the Vancouver Tribunal on Women’s Rights

Over the last 5 years I have seen the term "wife beating" change into "domestic violence", "husband" or "boyfriend" into "partner" or "spouse". People at all levels of power co-operate with this obscuring of who has power and who suffers the violence.

By Suzanne Jay
October 17, 2000
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Violence Against WomenFront Line
A Call Back to our Original Practice of Feminism in our Transition Houses

There has been a great push toward methods of professionalism in our work in the transition houses and it will take every effort on all our parts to fight back and hold onto our practice of feminism.

By Pauline Funston
2000
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Transition HouseFront Line
Working with Refugee Women

We recognize that these women have taken a huge risk in the hopes of a better life, a life that is widely promoted by developing nations. It is easy for traffickers to promote and sell to these women – their lives offer few alternatives. Our government has colluded with these traffickers by applying tremendous pressure with other first world nations to demand that third world countries conform to the western market ideologies hidden in calls for freedom and democracy.

By Alice Lee
2000
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Women of ColourFront Line
Rohypnol – How the Hype Tricks Women: A Rape Crisis Centre View

Rohypnol is only the latest drug men use to commit rape. Attention focuses on Rohypnol, but men who rape continue to use alcohol, prescription medication, marijuana, and cocaine. Women are bombarded with warnings to modify their behaviour to keep themselves safe from Rohypnol, yet the number of women calling us to report the use of drugs or alcohol as a factor in the violence done to them remains constant.

By Tamara Gorin
2000
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Front LineRape
Women’s Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization

The conference was unique. It brought together grassroots activists who run rape crisis centres, women who had used rape crisis centres, anti-poverty workers, prisoner advocates and women who had done time in prison, supreme court judges, and some of the most brilliant feminist legal minds in the country. We found that we agreed with each other far more than we disagreed.

By Suzanne Jay
2000
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Front LineWomen's Movement
BC Anti-Violence Workers Meeting Recommendations for Change

In September of 1999, feminist frontline anti-violence workers and some of our allies from equality seeking women's groups met to discuss and debate and determine what critical issues related to violence against women are facing in British Columbia.

September 1999
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Front LineViolence Against Women
Take Back The Night Vancouver 1997 – Speech by Tamara Gorin

We require the police and crown councils to do their jobs. When we come to you, do not treat us like inconveniences. Treat us with respect and investigate our cases. Charge him appropriately. Do not treat our advocates and support system with suspicion. Understand that we require each other’s presence until we can be 100% sure of your good will and action on our behalf.

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Women's MovementFront Line
Another Vernon Waiting to Explode

On April 4th, the Coalition of South Asian Women Against Violence called a press conference to remember Rajwar Ghakal and eight members of her family who were all murdered in Vernon, BC by her estranged husband Mark Chahal (on April 5, 1996). The Coalition called the press conference to raise awareness about violence against women, making clear that the Vernon massacre was not an isolated incident and that there could be many other Vernons simmering and ready to explode.

By Bonnie Agnew
May 1997
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Front LineWife Battery
Unity Statement of the Women’s Groups

While it is often impossible to engage the police to save the lives of women around us, we are often overwhelmed with misdirected policing which criminalizes women for coping with violence directed at them and for coping with the poverty enforced on them.

May 4, 1993
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Front LineCriminal Justice System
99 Federal Steps To End Violence Against Women

The 99 Federal Steps to End Violence Against Women was accepted by the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. For more than twenty years, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women has worked with front line anti-violence organizations within the women's movement to identify and fight the social forces and public policies supporting the violence which continues to damage and destroy the bodies and lives of women and girls.

By Lee Lakeman
1993
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Front LineViolence Against Women
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