Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission on Guaranteed Livable Income to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Even though Indigenous women are only 2% of the women in the lower mainland, they comprised more than 30% of the women who called us looking for safe shelter for […]
Bill C-51: Vancouver Rape Relief’s submission to the Senate Committee on Legal And Constitutional Affairs
Bill C-51: An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act Most of you know who we are and our work as the oldest rape crisis […]
Feminists and the Left on Guaranteed Livable Income
Download/print PDF This is the text of a speak given by Maria Wong at North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress (NABIG), 2018
Advocates call on province to take more action on International Women’s Day
“If the government will provide Guaranteed Livable Income that will allow women to have dignified lives… It will improve the situation in general, but will allow women to escape a lot of abusive situations in particular.”
Bill C-51: Vancouver Rape Relief’s submission to the Committee on Justice and Human Rights, House of Commons
Bill C-51: An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act The women who work in rape crisis centres did not need the “Me too” campaign […]
Economic Security for Women in Canada: Submission to the Committee on the Status of Women, House of Commons
The women’s liberation movement has historically been and continues to be the most crucial and effective in advancing women’s equality, addressing women’s rights, advocating for reproductive freedom, and tackling the […]
Bill C-16: Vancouver Rape Relief’s submission to the Senate Committee on Legal And Constitutional Affairs
Bill C-16: An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act Transgender people must live in safety and have the equal rights and opportunities that are promised to us all. […]
The Jane Collective: Underground Abortion Service in Chicago 1969-1973
From conversations between Madeleine Schwartz, a journalist, and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground railroad for reproductive care that was started […]
Opinion: Fighting back on men’s violence against women
Starting in the late 1960s, women came together in consciousness-raising groups to reveal their individual experiences to each other. Through these discussions, women realized that violence against women is a […]
Opinion: Inquiry needs feminist perspective
In a recent article (“Canada’s missing women inquiry to benefit from B.C. experience, say feds”, Vancouver Sun, July 3), both Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett and former judge Wally […]