National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
WED DEC 5th
Starts at 6 pm
DTES Women's Centre
(302 Columbia Street, near Main and Cordova)
Proceed to Thornton Park (Main Skytrain)
STOP ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!
END PATRIARCHY!
Violence against women and girls includes domestic violence and sexual
assault; psychological and spiritual violence; the economic violence
of poverty and homelessness; dangerous working conditions that many
women are forced to endure; violence committed by the government
including by the police and prisons; legislated violence that harms
women through policies such as cuts to legal aid, lack of universal
childcare, lack of pay equity, and child apprehension policies; and
across the globe, the violence of racism and colonization that uses
and commodifies women as a weapon of warfare.
Please join us! Trans inclusive, men welcome to march with us. For
more information, contact us at DEWC at 604-681-8480 x 234 or email us at DEWC
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
* At least 50% of women in Canada have been a victim of either a
sexual or physical assault.
* Approximately 100 women in Canada are killed annually by current or
former boyfriends and husbands.
* Indigenous women are five times more likely than other women to die
as the result of violence. Over the past twenty years, more than five
hundred Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing.
* In a 2001 PACE report, one-third of women said they had survived an
attack on their life while working on the street.
* One in five Canadian women lives in poverty, totalling 2.8 million
women, particularly single mothers, women with disabilities, recent
immigrant women, indigenous women, and elderly women.
* There has been an increase of 60% in the number of homeless women in
the past year in Van couver.
* Many women are forced to stay in abusive relationships for fear of
homelessness or lack of adequate shelter, poverty, child apprehension,
or deportation.
Organized by the DTES Women Centre Power of Women Group. The Power of
Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
dedicated to educating and raising awareness on social issues. We are
a group of women from all walks of life who are either on social
assistance, working poor, or homeless; but we are all living in
extreme poverty below the poverty line. Many us of are single mothers
or have had our children apprehended due to poverty; most of us have
chronic physical or mental health issues; many have drug or alcohol
addictions; and a majority have experienced and survived sexual
violence and abuse. For indigenous women, women of colour, and
immigrant women, we are affected by a history of colonization and
racism.
For more information go to For More Information
The UBCIC is a NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic `and Social Council of the United Nations.
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November 2007 News Reports
Last updated on Nov 20, 2007