Ending Violence Blog
Via our award winning blog Battered Women’s Support Services provides education and advocacy as we work towards the elimination of violence.
We’re Gearing Up For A Great November
On average, every six days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. And every day we work to change that reality. Here are some things we are doing in November and December to create awareness and take action to end violence against girls and women. The...
Prime Minister Trudeau Appoints Cabinet
Battered Women's Support Services Hopeful As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Appoints His Cabinet PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release November 4, 2015 BATTERED WOMEN’S SUPPORT SERVICES HOPEFUL AS PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU APPOINTS HIS CABINET We are hopeful on this...
Provincial Accountability for Deleted Highway of Tears Emails
Coalition on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Demands Provincial Accountability for Deleted Emails regarding Highway of Tears PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Coalition on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Demands Provincial...
Breaking the Silos
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women November 25, 2015 Commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with BWSS Breaking the Silos Purchase tickets here! This year we will honour our collective efforts, connect...
Cyber violence against women
Cyber violence against women is rampant and together we're changing that reality Women and girls experience deliberate violence because of their gender. All over the world they are exposed to violence regardless of their ethnicity, culture, or socioeconomic...
It’s time to retire the idea that alcohol-facilitated rape is simply drunken sex
It was only three years ago that the word “forcible” was taken out of the FBI definition of rape. Photograph: Image Source/Getty Images/Image Source Re-blogged from The Guardian By: Jessica Valenti The further back we go in American history, the more horrifyingly...
Eight reasons why victim-blaming needs to stop
Eight reasons why victim-blaming needs to stop: Writers, activists, and survivors speak out Re-blogged from Women Under Siege Project By Lauren Wolfe About once a day someone comes to this website by searching “Are rape victims to blame?” I hope when these...
Take Back The Night 2015
For girls and women, daily navigation through public space can be emotionally and physically exhausting. From a young age we learn that being a woman in public means somehow your body is public property. Being a woman in public means being worried about my safety....
Nurturing Connections in the Global Feminist Movement
For a second year, Battered Women’s Support Services had the pleasure of hosting a group of women’s equality advocates. We met in the morning at our direct services office to discuss women’s issues, barriers for women’s equality and the work we are all doing to create...
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Girls and Women in Canada continues as a national tragedy. Battered Women’s Support Services works at community and systemic levels to address the root causes of the violence. To that end we have collaborated with the community video...
The Best and Worst Places to be a Woman in Canada 2015
Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives: The Best and Worst Places to be a Woman in Canada 2015. This study ranks Canada's 25 largest cities based on the gaps in how women are faring in five significant areas: • Economic security (measured by gender gaps in...
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 report...