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Women’s Waves – Episode 6 – Interview with e nina jay

In this interview, "black, lesbian, womanist, feminist, poet and survivor" e nina jay tells us how working at a rape crisis center brought her to poetry, how she survives rape and incest, why women-only space is important and how she challenges racism in the feminist movement.

March 29, 2020

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Poetry Violence Against Women Women of Colour

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1200 new women are calling us every year... Sometimes they call because they can’t sleep.... Sometimes they call us because it’s not safe for them to stay where they are... Sometimes they call us because they need a bus ticket or a flight... Many times they will call us because they want to protect other women...

By Hilla Kerner

February 15, 2020

Front Line Violence Against Women

Statistics about Violence against Girls and Young Women in Canada

Younger girls were most often victimized by a family member, older girls by a casual acquaintance and young women by a non-spousal intimate partner (a man they were dating).

December 2018

Statistics Violence Against Women

Impressions from the Zapatista Women’s Gathering

“Our voice is not only the voice of Indigenous peoples, but at the same time the voice of all the women in the world.”

By Maria Paredes

April 25, 2018

Solidarity Violence Against Women Women of Colour

After Trump and Pussy Hats with Chris Hedges and Suzanne Jay

March 3, 2017

Violence Against Women

Professor S. Laurel Weldon on Combating Violence Against Women in Global Perspective

December 3, 2016

Front Line Violence Against Women

Alejandra Lopez on the Sexist Violent Attack on Indigenous women in Ciudad Juarez

December 1, 2012

Indigenous Women Violence Against Women

Largest Global Study on Violence against Women finds Feminist Movements hold the Key to Change

This study on violence against women conducted over four decades and in 70 countries reveals the mobilization of feminist movements is more important for change than the wealth of nations, left-wing political parties, or the number of women politicians.

2012

Violence Against Women

Vancouver Rape Relief’s Response to Police-Reported Crime Statistics in Canada, 2011

It is clear that while women trust women’s services to assist them after being attacked, they obviously do not trust the state agent that is responsible to protect women from male violence, the police.

By Hilla Kerner

July 25, 2012

Criminal Justice System Violence Against Women

Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission to the Public Commission on Legal Aid

The Public Commission on Legal Aid was established the Canadian Bar Association BC branch in June of 2010 to engage the public of British Columbia in order to determine their priorities regarding legal aid in the province of British Columbia.

By Hilla Kerner

October 7, 2010

Front Line Legal Aid Violence Against Women

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