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Sex-based violence against women and girls: Oral submission of the Special Rapporteur on VAWG, Reem Alsalem | HRC59
June 25, 2025
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Sex-based violence against women and girls: Report of the Special Rapporteur on VAWG, Reem Alsalem

"If the category of biological females is erased or fundamentally decoupled from sex-based oppression, that oppression becomes increasingly difficult to identify and, thus, to combat. In sum, what is not defined cannot be protected."

June 16, 2025
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International Women’s Day: Feminists Speak Out
March 8, 2025
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Women’s Self-Defence Workshop
September 28, 2024
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter is collaborating with Wenlido to host another free self-defence workshop for women of all ages and abilities.Call 604-872-8212 for information & to register.
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Transitioning to Escape Patriarchy: A conversation with Beaver
September 14, 2024
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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
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Position paper on the definition of “woman” in international human rights treaties by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
By Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
April 4, 2024
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Women’s Self-Defence Workshop
February 4, 2024
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter is collaborating with Wenlido to host another free self-defence workshop for women of all ages and abilities.Call 604-872-8212 for information & to register.
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Women-Only Space: A firsthand account
April 2, 2021
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City of Vancouver withdraws support for our public education work

We are encouraged by those who spoke on the day in favour of our work and the political principles guiding us. As well, by the hundreds who expressed similar sentiments in their letters to council members. We are also grateful to the many who have donated to us, ensuring that we can carry on and even expand our public education efforts.

March 1, 2020
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