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 […]
Ordinary Women Rise: Lee Lakeman’s herstory book about Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter
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Vancouver Rape Relief’s Vigil at B.C. Legislature honouring Women Victims of Femicide in 2025
Five women were murdered by men in a span of three weeks in British Columbia
Earlier today, a silent vigil was held today in downtown Vancouver honouring 5 women who were murdered by men in recent weeks in British Columbia. We are calling on the […]
The Supreme Court of Canada confirms the constitutionality of prostitution related offences
The Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Kloubakov, 2025 SCC 25 upheld the conviction of two men who were profiting as “drivers” from the exploitation of women in prostitution. The Court accepted […]
Opinion: Canada’s sexual-assault law is not the problem – it’s the application of it
Elizabeth Sheehy is a professor emerita of law at the University of Ottawa. Janine Benedet and Isabel Grant are law professors at the University of British Columbia. No matter the […]
We are starving
I am so hungry. I’ve never meant those words in the way I do now. They carry a kind of humiliation that I can’t fully describe. Every moment, I find […]