In commemoration and celebration, BWSS collaborated and participated in events during the week of International Women's Day 2019. Here is a look at some of the amazing events, bringing community together for the advancement of gender equity! Every day, our over 150...

Support women's access to justice and family law this International Women's Day.   Learn about the barriers to women's access to justice in the legal system. It is commonly known that violence escalates when a woman decides to separate from her...

Like many of you, we watched MP Jody Wilson-Raybould testify at a hearing of the Commons justice committee and we were riveted and grateful for her and all women who take personal risks to confront power in their every day lives, in their communities and...

1 in 5 women make their first disclosure of violence in an intimate relationship to their general practitioner. In B.C., an average of 232 women per year are admitted to a B.C. hospital for severe injuries from intimate partner violence. Violence against...

We are pleased to share tickets are available now for Options for Sexual Health and Battered Women Support Services presentation and world premiere of 'Her Story (In Three Parts) by Camille Hollett-French. Join us on International Women's Day, March 8 2019, at the...

This year at the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN), we continue to participate in February 14 Women’s Memorial March events to remember and honor missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,...

I joined the February 14th Women’s Memorial March in Downtown Eastside Vancouver in 1998. At the time, I had just immigrated to Canada. I came escaping from injustice and looking for a safe place to live for me and my family. However, sooner than later, I...

Evoking presence through their absence is the intention of The REDress Project which is an aesthetic response to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women started in Winnipeg, Manitoba by Métis artist Jaime Black. Last night, February 12th, at our support...

I believe my first February 14th Women's Memorial March was in 1997 in Downtown Eastside Vancouver. I was the support worker at PACE Society at the time and I was asked to say a few words. This was a great honour. During the March we would customarily...

I march because: It is time for us to unite… for the sheer purpose that Indigenous Women and girls are not disposable, for the urgent matter that the lives of Indigenous Women and Girls matter! I march because: It is the time that Indigenous Women and...

Championing Choice & Safety: A Womxn’s World in Three Parts   Battered Women Support Services and Options for Sexual Health are pleased to partner in the Canadian premiere of three short films by writer/director/actor Camille Hollet-French. The films explore...

It all started for me back in 2004, when Rachel Quinney was found murdered in a field Northeast of Sherwood Park, Alberta. She was 19 years old and her body had been mutilated. The headlines in the paper at the time used so many demeaning words as if to justify the...