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.
Beauty Redefined
This website was created by two sisters working on their PhD's in Utah and has a mandate to expose unrealistic ideals of beauty in the media and "take back" beauty for women and girls. Read about Photoshopping in the media and how the objectification of women is a key...
International Women's Day Vancouver
Battered Women's Support Services will march in the International Women's Day Parade in Vancouver on Saturday, March 8th. The parade, which starts in McSpadden Park at 12:30, will include floats from women's organizations in Vancouver that celebrate 100 years of...
Utopia Festival
This March 5th, the Utopia Festival will celebrate women in music at Vancouver's creative hub, W2 Storyeum! The musical showcase features 30 artists including: Peaches, Tanya Tagaq, Isis Salam (Thunderheist) and more. Join BWSS in Ending Violence at the Utopia...
2011 Kawaskimhon Moot
From March 4th to 6th, the 2011 Kawaskimhon Moot will examine legal remedies to issue of missing & murdered Indigenous Women. This year's facilitators include Gwen Brodsky, Shelagh Day, Darlene Johnston , June McCue, Valerie Napoleon, Jean Teillet, and Beverley...
Technology escalated abuse
When a young women, using the internet to research how to leave her abusive relationship, erased her internet browsing history, her abusive boyfriend assulted & kidnapped her. He was changed on Sunday after she was able to escape. Read more about this story here....
Taped Jail Calls N.Y. Domestic Violence Impact Cases
In new York, phone calls made by prisoners to everyone but their doctors and lawyers are being taped. This has been used as evidence in trials and have become central in domestic violence cases. Read more about that story here.
Full-force safety course: a personal account
Some studies show that fighting back is more effective in deescalating unwanted advances and surviving a sexual assault. Read one woman's personal account of a safety course here.
Housing activists to hold rally at noon
One year after the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Olympic Village is a ghost town. While developers and marketers try many different tricks to recoup tax-payer's money, housing activists want the promise of social housing delivered. At noon on Saturday, they held...
Missing person: Lisa Marie Young
Nine years after Lisa Marie Young disappeared in Nanaimo, police are still investigating and asking anyone with information to step forward. Read the full release by Nanaimo RCMP here. If you have any information on what happened to Lisa Marie Young, please contact...
VPD respond to sexual assaults at DTES shelter
The Vancouver Police Department released a statement today in response to reports of sexual assaults of women taking shelter in the First United Church emergency shelter in the DTES. Read the entire press release here. After a coalition of women from the DTES and...
Judge's decision challenged in Winnipeg
In Winnipeg, citizens and politicians alike gathered outside the law courts to express their collective outrage regarding Justice Robert Dewar's decision on a rape case Thursday. Many activists were quick to point out that the conditional sentence handed out to the...
Women & Women’s Organizations Respond Quickly to Sexual Assaults in Downtown Eastside Shelter
Women & Women’s Organizations Respond Quickly to Sexual Assaults in Downtown Eastside Church Shelter While Shelter and City of Vancouver Ignore Reports by Downtown Eastside women and women's organizations http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/6390 For...