BC Victims of Femicide 2024
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Brief Submitted to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women re: Femicide
Download the pdf Femicide in Canada In 2023, 205 women and girls were victims of homicide in Canada.[1] Of the solved homicides, almost three quarters (72%) were killed by a […]
October 5: International Day of No Prostitution (IDNP)
On the occasion of IDNP 2024, the Women’s Equality Coalition marks the 10th anniversary of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, 2014, which recognizes prostitution as an exploitative […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s shadow report to CEDAW
Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Occasion of the Committee’s Periodic Review of Canada September 2024 Table of contents Vancouver Rape Relief and […]
This shouldn’t have happened: An open letter to BC Premier and AG on the tragic murder of Tori Dunn and other cases of femicide in British Columbia
Dear Premier Eby and Attorney General Sharma, Premier Eby was recently quoted in the media in relation to the tragic murder of Tori Dunn saying that “There needs to be […]
Factum of the Women’s Equality Coalition: Supreme Court of Canada – Mikhail Kloubakov, et al.
Opinion: Public Safety for Whom? When the Police are Perpetrators
In recent months, multiple cases of male police officers in Canada who used their positions to gain access to, and abuse, vulnerable women have been made public due to proceedings […]
Position paper on the definition of “woman” in international human rights treaties by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
Indigenous Women victims of femicide by their male partner
Indigenous Women in Canada are most often victims of #femicide by their male partner or ex-partner. Source: Statistic Canada, Indigenous victims of homicide in Canada, 2022 released on March 28, […]
Women’s Equality Coalition response to “Act Now: Preventing Human Trafficking of Women, Girls and Gender Diverse People in Canada”, Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women
We commend the Standing Committee on the Status of Women for taking on the important study of the trafficking of women, girls, and vulnerable people for sexual purposes in Canada. […]