Media Advisory
For immediate release
April 30, 2014
Press Conference:
Anti-Violence Women’s Groups Call the Province of British Columbia to Prevent Domestic Homicide Against Women
Vancouver, BC – Anti-violence women’s groups are calling the Province of British Columbia to prevent domestic homicide against women. The recent death of a woman with her husband in Saanich on April 28 is increasing concerns of a domestic homicide. She found death in her house by police who later found the submerged body of her husband in the water off Cattle Point, 2.5 kilometres east of their house. On April 2nd an estranged husband attempted to kill his wife in Langley, on April 16th a husband tried to kill his wife in Abbotsford, and on April 21th a woman is killed by her common-law partner in Clearwater.
Local anti-violence women’s groups are raising their concerns about continuous domestic homicide and male violence against women in BC. Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter, Battered Women’s Support Services and YWCA will hold a press conference on Thursday, May 1, 2014 to outline what the province of British Columbia must do to protect women.
WHAT: Press conference of local anti-violence women’s groups
WHEN: Thursday, May 1, 2014 – 10:00am
WHERE: YWCA – 535 Hornby Street (Welsh room – 4th floor), Vancouver, BC
WHO: Daisy Kler – Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter
Rosa Elena Arteaga – Battered Women Support Services (BWSS)
Lisa Rupert – Munroe house, YWCA
Media Contacts:
Hilla Kerner, Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter, 604-872-8212, hillak@rapereliefshelter.bc.ca
Rosa Elena Arteaga, Battered Women’s Support Services, 778-996-5993, rosa@bwss.org
Chantelle Krish, YWCA Vancouver 604 895 5767, ckrish@ywcavan.org
