Opinion: I had the choice, and so should all women
It was day two of a week-long backpacking trek across the North Coast Trail when I started feeling sick overwhelming nausea, loss of appetite, weakness. I thought we weren’t treating the water […]
Opinion: Yoko Ono makes space for women’s testimonies at the Vancouver Art Gallery
These are the last days of the Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition includes a growing installation that Ono started in 2013 named “Arising.” The installation displays the responses […]
An Open Letter to RED FM Radio from Lower Mainland Women’s Groups
RED FM radio station March 28 2022 Dear RED FM management, We are outraged by the sexist and contemptuous remarks RED FM host Harjinder Thind made about young South Asian […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Brief to the Committee on Justice and Human Rights
We, the collective of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, provide support to women who are currently being prostituted, women who are trying to escape prostitution, and women who are […]
The women who called our crisis line in 2021
Opinion: Canadian company that owns Pornhub must be held accountable
These days, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the House of Commons is conducting its study about the protection of privacy and reputation on platforms […]
An Open Letter to British Columbia’s Minister of Health: Abortions are inaccessible for Northern B.C. Women
Dear Minister Dix, Canadian women are outraged for our American sisters in Texas after the recent US supreme court decision to allow a Texas law effectively banning abortions. While […]
Posters in Downtown Vancouver: The Criminal Justice System Protects Rapists and Batterers, Not Women
VANCOUVER, BC – Last night (August 5, 2021), women held a putting-up-posters action around the Provincial Court in Downtown Vancouver. The women are Vancouver Rape Relief’s callers – battered and […]
Pan-Canadian Abolitionist Feminist Advocates (PAFA) Launches Canada-Wide Public Awareness Campaign – Prostitution: #NotAChoice
The Pan-Canadian Abolitionist Feminist Advocates / Alliées féministes abolitionistes pancanadiennes (PAFA) was formed in February 2021 and includes groups from British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. PAFA […]
New Statistics Canada report about sex-trade-related crime in relation to the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA).
On June 21, 2021 – Statistics Canada published a new report about sex-trade-related crime reported by police before and after the 2014 legislation of Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons […]