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.
Childhood Betrayed
Unhappiness and fear are unwanted friends That make you wonder how life will mend The pain and injury of a long ago past What will it take for peace to last? Life is a journey and we chart our way Through clouds and sunshine day by day Sometimes we struggle and...
Gender Persecution and Refugee Law Reform in Canada
In Response to: The Balanced Refugee Reform Act (BILL C-11) April 2011 Written by: Lobat Sadrehashemi For: Battered Women’s Support Services Gender Persecution and Refugee Law Reform in Canada Our refugee system is going to fundamentally change over the next year to...
Prevention of Violence Against Women Week – April 18 – 25, 2011
Urban Women’s Anti-Violence Strategy Sexual violence, it seems, is the one crime where we blame the victim and not the perpetrator. Frequently, women who are attacked are told, "You should have been more careful," or, "You shouldn't have put yourself in that...
Inspiring Stories, Amazing Women, Ending Violence
Inspiring Stories, Amazing Women, Ending Violence By Angela Marie MacDougall Think about Battered Women’s Support Services as concentric circles or a web of interconnected experiences, lives and stories steeped in survival, hope and effective change. At the centre...
Feminism FOR REAL Vancouver Book Launch
Feminism FOR REAL Vancouver Book Launch By Angela Marie MacDougall On Thursday, April 14, 2011, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives CCPA Site Here hosted the Vancouver book launch of Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism...
Urban Women's Anti-Violence Strategy 2011
Thanks for your ongoing support and commitment to ending violence against women. Over the years, Vancouver and the province of British Columbia has experienced a death by a thousand cuts as services and the network of support for women survivors of violence are being...
MOTHER’S DAY LIBERATION RALLY & COMMUNITY SUPPER 2011 by The Committee for Single Mothers on the Move
MOTHER’S DAY LIBERATION RALLY & COMMUNITY SUPPER 2011 in Vancouver, BC MAY 7 Mother’s Day Liberation Rally Starting 3:00pm Gather at Woodland Park (Adanac and Woodland) Facebook Event PROGRAM FOR SPEAKERS AT RALLY AT WOODLAND PARK, 3pm Denise/Cynthia: MC's Kat...
National Crime Victim's Awareness Week – Start the conversation, take action, end violence
The following is a conversation three men had on a Facebook page of a Battered Women’s Support Services staff woman in response to this post: National Crime Victims Awareness Week begins today We’re urging men to own their role to end violence against women...
Nova Scotia court issues landmark decision for abused women by KIRK MAKIN
Nova Scotia court issues landmark decision for abused women KIRK MAKIN — JUSTICE REPORTER From Monday's Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011 9:44PM EDT Last updated Monday, Apr. 11, 2011 3:51AM EDT Nova Scotia Court Issues Landmark Decision Battered women...
National Crime Victims Awareness Week – April 10 – 17, 2011
National Crime Victims Awareness Week begins today and Battered Women’s Support Services is continuing our call urging men to own their role to end violence against girls and women. BWSS ending violence initiative Men Ending Violence is a coalition of men across...
Factors That Make Acquaintance Rape Or Date Rape Likely
Factors That Make Acquaintance Rape Or Date Rape Likely How can "nice" men with "good intentions" coerce someone to have sex? It is because men and women in the process of becoming social beings learn communication patterns that make acquaintance...
Poem of a Battered Women by Rhonda Vermette
Poem of a Battered Woman You were always right, even when you were wrong You would say I was weak, when I knew I was strong You made promises to me, ones that you did not keep You continued to hurt me, you made me weep The embarrassment I would feel, from the glances...