Vancouver Rape Relief’s Oral Submission to the Federal Finance Committee
Formally, women in Canada have equal rights. In reality the journey towards equality for women in the political, economic, and domestic life is still very far from its end result: […]
The VPD review of the Mistakes in the Cases of the Missing Women and the Pickton Murders
Published in November Issue Feminist Journal Rain and Thunder. In a four hundred page report in the cases of women missing from Vancouver, Doug LePard of the VPD reveals year […]
Abolishing Prostitution through Economic, Physical and Political Security for Women
Published in Public Policy for Women State Income, Security and Labour Market Issues, University of Toronto Press (2009)
Feeding and Nurturing our Political Palate
The Table Setting: Women from many nations and walks of life gather at the kitchen table for conversations and consciousness-raising in different languages and quite often at the same time […]
Abolishing Prostitution Through Economic, Physical and Political Security for Women (2009)
Read the pdf A chapter from: Public Policy for Women: The State Income, Income Security and Labour Market Issues, Edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Jane Pulkingham, University Of Toronto Press. 2009
Aboriginal Women’s Action Network on Prostitution
As Aboriginal women on occupied Coast Salish Territory, we, the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network (AWAN) implore you to pay attention to the voices of Aboriginal women and women’s groups who are […]
flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – the process
On the occasion of our 35th anniversary, we took the opportunity that WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution was on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery to develop flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific […]
flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – background
Vancouver is an ancient and wondrous Pacific port, a modern colonial outpost; a ‘border town’ of the American imperial giant. This gateway to the splendour of the world’s largest sea, […]
Inaction and Non-Compliance: British Columbia’s Approach to Women’s Inequality
Read/Download the submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. The BC CEDAW Group is a coalition of women’s non-governmental and non-profit British Columbia organizations that […]
International Gathering of Transition House Workers
In Canada and many other parts of the world, women first opened their homes to battered women in the early half of the 1970s out of the momentum of the […]