Posts Tagged ‘gender based violence’
We can vote to end GBV!
Ontario’s election day is February 27 – ask all candidates to commit to help Ontario end Gender-Based Violence. 62 lives were taken by femicide in Ontario last year, including the killings of Indigenous women, girls and Two Spirit people, which Indigenous leaders and a National Inquiry have named as genocide. Those are only the confirmed cases.…
Read moreCommunity safety includes safety from gender-based violence
Community safety and well-being plans (CSWPs) came into being as the result of the Safer Ontario Act, passed by the provincial government in 2018. It requires municipalities to create these CSWP plans, but offers little in the way of detail about what the plans need to include. Recommendation #10 from the CKW inquest calls for…
Read moreJoint statement on the release of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence
As advocates who developed a Roadmap for the National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence, we have been anxiously waiting for the release of this 10-year plan. This statement is our joint reaction to the federal government’s release on November 9, 2022, of its long-awaited National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, which comes nearly two years after…
Read moreInitial reaction to the joint declaration and framework for action on gender-based violence
Today, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments recognized the importance of the issues of gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against women (VAW). We appreciate that some of the recommendations from the GBV sector have been taken into consideration in this joint declaration and framework for action. However, this document itself is not a National Action Plan…
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