LEAF National – Women’s Legal Education & Action Fund

LEAF is a national charitable organization that works towards ensuring the law guarantees substantive equality for all women and envisions the realization of substantive equality for all women in Canada. The organization focuses on litigation, law reform, and public...

YWCA Week Without Violence 

This campaign takes place the third week of October and is an annual week-long series of community events promoting diverse approaches to creating a violence-free world. YWCA Canada supports events that promote diverse approaches to eliminating gender-based...

White Ribbon Campaign 

Through education, awareness-raising, outreach, technical assistance, capacity building and partnerships, White Ribbon’s programming challenges negative, outdated concepts of manhood and inspires men to understand and embrace the incredible potential they have...

#PastDue 

#PastDue is a campaign by YWCA to take decisive and comprehensive action for increased support during the COVID-19 pandemic for women and girls experiencing gender-based violence. Also known as the Shadow Pandemic, gender-based violence has not only heightened, but...

#MeToo and #TimesUp Movement

#MeToo and #TimesUp are national movements to activate change on sexual violence. Facilitated by hashtags, women around the world began to share stories online about sexual assault and experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace to raise awareness. Both...

Black Lives Matter  

Black Lives Matter is an international organization and movement fighting police and State violence and anti-Black racism. This includes action against anti-Blackness in the gender-based violence sector. ...