Ending Violence Blog

For the past forty years, Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) has been on the frontline taking action to prevent gender-based violence (GBV). Gender-based violence is defined as violence that is inflicted upon a person due to their gender identity, gender...

Join Us and Seek Justice for Survivors Around the world, women have become an unstoppable force in addressing gender-based violence, including intimate partner, domestic and sexualized violence. They are rewriting the rules, redefining power relationships, defining...

Standing In Our Own Power Support Group Standing In Our Own Power Support Group is a healing space for survivors who have experienced any form of gendered-based violence, including abuse in intimate relationships. Join other women who want to share their experiences,...

Announcing the Justice Centre at BWSS. Founded in 1979, Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) takes action to end violence against women and girls through community-based interventions, support services, legal and systemic advocacy, education and training, violence prevention and research and policy.

BWSS is honoured to receive the BC Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Award. Attorney General Niki Sharma and Mable Elmore, Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives, awarded Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) with a Breaking Barriers Award.

​BWSS Commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa when police opened fire on...

As part of a coalition of organizations, including our friends West Coast LEAF, Rise Women’s Legal Center, and Feminists Deliver, Battered Women’s Support Services has written to the Ministry of Child and Family Development (MCFD) on necessary reforms to social work...

Announcing BWSS’s Gender Equity Learning and Knowledge Exchange To mark the occasion of International Women’s Day, Battered Women’s Support Services is thrilled to announce the launch of our Gender Equity Learning and Knowledge Exchange (GELKE)!About International...

Have you heard about KNOW MORE week? JOIN US March 5-12, 2023 as we at BWSS along with allies and activists from around the world who are saying No More and let’s KNOW More to take action intimate partner, domestic, and sexualized violence. As a global grassroots...

BWSS and Hundreds of Others Release Letter to BC Government: We Need Pay Equity   Today, over 100 organizations and individuals have released an open letter to the BC government calling for the enactment of intersectional pay equity legislation before the next...

From January 30th to February 2nd, 2023, Kirstin Scansen-Isbister, BWSS Research and Policy Analyst, travelled to Whitehorse, Yukon, located on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, to present at the Exploring...