Haitian Women’s Resistance to Male Violence: A Speak by Magalie Civil
Haitian Women’s Resistance to Male Violence: A Speak by Magalie Civil Thursday, July 9 – Doors open 6:30pm (Speak at 7pm) Women-only, The Second Space – 748 Kingsway,, RSVP: info[at]vrrws.ca
Opinion: The sexual degradation of women as a shared, male bonding experience
One year after the sexual assault case against the five Canadian World Juniors hockey players resulted in an acquittal, the recent arrest of three Toronto Police Service officers surfaces one […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s brief to the House of Commons Committee on the Status of Women for its study on the role and capacity of women’s shelters and transitional housing to support women and girls in Canada
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is the longest standing Canadian front-line service responding to women who’ve experienced all forms of male violence including rape, battery, incest, prostitution, and sexual […]
Vancouver Rape Relief to intervene in two sexual assault cases before the Supreme Court of Canada
On May 21 and 22, Vancouver Rape Relief will intervene in two appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada that raise an important issue for sexual assault survivors whose cases […]
Key findings of BC Coroner’s review of Intimate Partner Violence-Related Deaths in the province echo Vancouver Rape Relief’s calls
The BC Coroner just released its Review of Intimate Partner Violence-Related Deaths in British Columbia, 2016-2024. We have been pressing the province for systemic change, with transparency and making the […]
Film Screening: The Prostitution Monologues
Join us for a screening of The Prostitution Monologues on Friday, April 24 at 7pm (doors open at 6:30) at our Second Space (748 Kingsway). This powerful documentary film features […]
Ordinary Women Rise: Lee Lakeman’s herstory book about Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter
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Women’s Waves – Episode 26
In this episode, we talk with our long-time ally, Québécoise radical-feminist lesbian organizer Diane Matte. In this conversation (which we hope is the first of a few), we hear from […]
Redefining empowerment: The case against “choice” feminism
A dominant narrative in Western popular culture suggests that women can have it all. They can climb their way to the peak of their careers while wearing that expensive new […]
HOPE IS A WOMAN’S NAME: A conversation with Amal Elsana Alh’jooj
“As a Bedouin Palestinian from the desert town of Laqiya, Israel, Alh’jooj knows firsthand what it means to fight for the right of personhood, and to do it from an […]