Now Serving: Safer Bars and Spaces Training Program has been providing hospitality spaces with gender-based violence prevention and response education since 2017. Now Serving is a program created by the Dandelion Initiative, a small grassroots organization that...
Wiindo Debwe Mosewin (“walking together in truth”) patrol is made up of caring volunteers and friends dedicated to imagining and creating a feminist and decolonized form of community safety together in Thunder Bay. We formed to raise up the voices of the...
The United Nations has called on all countries to have a National Action Plan on Violence Against Women (VAW) by 2015. Currently, Canada has no comprehensive national plan or strategy to deal with violence against women. This campaign is a renewed call from the...
The conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic were ones that were widely recognized by advocates as likely to increase the risk of violence while at the same time making it more difficult for those experiencing violence to seek help – especially given the...
This working group is made up of academic from public health, international relations, public policy, and development economics who focus on better understanding and addressing the gendered effects of COVID-19 and government responses to the outbreak. The project is...
The Thunder Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking is a cross-sectoral partnership of law enforcement, health, education and social service providers. The Coalition works collaboratively to address the issue of human trafficking and to streamline supports for...
