Dec 6, 2019
Women journalists as human rights defenders
Sarah Macharia
For decades now, "very few" stories in Canadian news media have challenged gender stereotypes, according to a global monitoring project conducted every five years since 1995.
gender-based violence
Dec 6, 2019
30 years after the Montreal Massacre, politicians and media are making things worse
David J. Climenhaga
Every Canadian should read Nora Loreto's essay in the National Observer -- and every Canadian man should read it in a spirit of reflection and honest self-examination.
Nov 21, 2019
Growing the movement to end transphobic discrimination and violence
In addition to mourning those who have been killed, trans activists and allies have organized Trans Awareness Week to precede the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Nov 21, 2019
An act of institutional femicide: remembering the life of Michele M
The last three weeks of 58-year-old single mother and abuse survivor Michele M's life were spent on the run from a multi-generational history of male violence against women and children.
Oct 24, 2019
Renewed Violence Against Women Act languishes in U.S. Senate
Twenty-five years ago, the Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, was signed into law in the U.S. In April, the bill was sent to the Republican-controlled Senate, where it has been awaiting action.
Dec 14, 2018
Canada's extradition law a dangerous back-door bludgeon for abusive ex-spouses
While the Trudeau government has long boasted of employing a gendered lens to enact its policies, that analysis has certainly not applied to extradition.
Jul 27, 2018
Violence is a public health issue: weekly news roundup
Sophia Reuss
In the wake of the Danforth shooting and recent mass violence in Toronto, might Canadians do better to approach violence as an issue of public health, rather than public safety?
Apr 26, 2018
Toronto van attack, toxic masculinity and the Canadian Forces
Yves Engler
The alleged perpetrator of Monday’s van attack in Toronto has ties to a powerful patriarchal institution that is Canada’s biggest purveyor of violence.
Apr 5, 2018
Re-defining torture at the UN
Penney Kome
Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson lobby for UN Committee on Torture to recognize sexualized violence as a form of torture.
Apr 3, 2018
The cost of free expression online for women
With online platforms increasingly being a site of public discourse in democratic societies, gendered online violence silences and makes invisible a key sector of society in the public sphere.
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