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.
Room 2806: The Accusation – Yes, We Wanna Talk About the Sexual Assault Case Against French Politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn
By Angela Marie MacDougall In early December 2020 during COVID-19 sanctioned isolation and work from home, I was speaking with my daughter, Leona sharing our watched and to watch list and she had just watched Room 2806: The Accusation suggesting I check it out. Room...
This Holiday Season Choose the Gift of Safety
GIVE THE GIFT OF SAFETY This year gave us plenty of things we didn’t expect. But we get to choose how it ends. So we are choosing radical hope! And safety. Along with generosity, resilience, resistance, strength, and action. Even in the midst of a difficult year,...
Assessing the Community Impacts of the Jordan Decision. Share Your Experience and Win a $75 gift card!
Since 2016, there has been growing concern about the decision made by the Supreme court in R v Jordan impacting women who have and/or are experiencing violence. Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) and the Intersectional Feminist Justice Research and Organizing...
Battered Women’s Support Services releases new PSA on November 25 to mark the first day of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
Press release Vancouver, BC – Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) releases a public service announcement (PSA) to highlight the COVID-19 Shadow Pandemic of the alarming increase in violence against women. We are currently facing a double global pandemic health...
November 20th Transgender Day of Remembrance
Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman, was murdered in Allston, Massachusetts on November 28, 1998. In response to her murder, an outpouring of grief and anger led to a candlelight vigil. Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender...
Police Complain About the Time it Takes to Investigate Domestic Violence During COVID 19
The Vancouver Police Department released a new report with crime statistics for the first nine months of the year. The report compares January to September 2020 to the same time period. This report will be tabled at the next meeting of the Vancouver Police Board,...
Six in ten girls surveyed in Canada have experienced online abuse and harassment
A recent global survey of 14,000 girls aged 15–25 in 22 countries including Canada, showed that more than half (58 percent), have been harassed or abused online. In Canada, the results are even higher at 62 percent. The report, titled Free to be online? Girls' and...
BWSS AGM 2020
Click here to register! When: Thursday, October 22, 2020, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Where: Zoom This event is free of charge and open to members and non-members, we ask that non-members please register by 5 PM Tuesday, October 22 by emailing communityengagement@bwss.org. Once...
National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans, and Two-Spirit People
Unceded lands of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations/Vancouver, BC) – Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS) is in solidarity with Indigenous families, communities, and survivors in honour of all of the lives...
Time to Thrive: Join Thriving
Thrive is one of our programs at BWSS that is carefully-designed to support the diverse needs of women with lived experience in sex economies in setting and achieving their goals. Thrive offers a non-judgmental space where participants can meet one-on-one with a...
Reproductive justice: Beyond safe abortions
This article uses the terms “pregnant people,” “mothers,” and “women” based on the context. We are aware that there are separate statistics on trans men and non-binary people and we acknowledge that there is information available beyond this article. Women who...
Financial Literacy Program for Black Immigrant Women
Occasionally, we proudly amplify the work of grassroots organizations who contribute to improving the lives of women, femmes, non-binary people, and children. In this case, we are excited to support the work of Vancouver Eastside Educational Enrichment Society (VEEES)...