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outreach, technical assistance, capacity building and partnerships, White Ribbon’s programming challenges negative, outdated concepts of manhood and inspires men to understand and embrace the incredible potential they have...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 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 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 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. ...
16 Days of Activism is a worldwide call for the elimination of gender-based violence. This global campaign runs annually from November 25 (International Day Against Violence Against Women) to December 10 (International Human Rights Day). In recent years, this campaign...
Tuesday, January 26: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Reframing inaccessibility as structural violence in the lives of mothers with disabilities Virtual Presentation Melanie Stone will present the findings of her Photovoice research project, located in London, Ontario. This project...
Monday, January 25: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Building Connections: Supporting Community-Based Programs to Address Interpersonal Violence and Child Maltreatment Using Relational, Trauma-Informed Frameworks Presented by Margaret Leslie, DipC.S., C.Psych. Assoc. et Mary Motz,...
Wednesday, January 20: 1:00 – 3:00 pm ASHE: Arts, Spirituality, Healing and Embodiment Virtual Forum Session This session is part of the broader 2021 Virtual Forum, Looking Within: Anti-Black Racism and the Gender-Based Violence Sector in Canada. The Forum runs Jan...
Tuesday, January 19: 1:00 – 3:00 pm Anti-Black Racism and Service Provision in the GBV Sector Virtual Forum Session This session is part of the broader 2021 Virtual Forum, Looking Within: Anti-Black Racism and the Gender-Based Violence Sector in Canada. The Forum runs...
