Additional Funding Confirmed Ensuring Continued Legal Aid Services for Immigrants and Refugees
Last month, June 2017, The Legal Services Society (LSS) announced that it would stop taking applications for immigration and refugee services effective August 1, 2017, due to a lack of funding to keep up with increased demand. Battered Women’s Support Services...Canada’s Federal Government Fails to Provide Constitutional Right to Legal Aid and Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Lives Hang in the Balance
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release June 26, 2017 Canada’s Federal Government Fails to Provide Constitutional Right to Legal Aid and Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Lives Hang in the Balance Vancouver, B.C. Coast Salish Territory – On June...Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Women
The Violence Stops Here – Continued Commitment To Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Women Women from around the world leave violence in their home countries to come to Canada. Arriving in Canada they often face discrimination and isolation, afraid to...The Complexity of Gender Violence When Intersecting with Women’s Migration
The BC Coroners Service is currently conducting an inquest into the death of Lucia Vega Jimenez. Jimenez was a 42-year Mexican hotel worker who died while in the Canadian Border Service Agency’s custody. Prior to her scheduled deportation to Mexico, she hung herself...Economic Empowerment Strategies
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