As women’s advocates, we know that the threat of violence continues to loom too large as a reality in the lives of Indigenous girls and women in Canada. On average, Indigenous women aged 25 to 44 are five times more…
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: “pervasive, immediate and urgent”
OCRCC Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
Posted in Campaigns & Education, Policy & Political Action, Uncategorised
Remember December 6
On this date in 1989, a gunman killed 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, before killing himself. In the suicide note he left on his body, he described his rage against women and identified their pursuit of social equality as the event that…
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Sexual assault centres are overwhelmed in the #MeToo era
In Waterloo Region, a woman was visiting her doctor’s office when she noticed a sign and phone number for the Sexual Assault Support Centre. She went home and called the number, and shared that she was sexually abused as a…
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Poverty, Sexual Violence and Ontario Income Supports
OCRCC Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
Posted in Campaigns & Education, Policy & Political Action
Sexual violence can impact anyone. But Canadian and global statistics tell us that the prevalence of sexual and relationship is gendered – that is, it is experienced at higher rates by women, girls and trans persons. Women and children in…
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Count Us In: Women will vote on June 7
OCRCC Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
Posted in OCRCC Activities, OCRCC in the Media, Policy & Political Action
Count Us In: Women will vote on June 7 This article was written by Pamela Cross, Lieran Docherty, Amanda Dale, Farrah Khan, Marlene Ham, Lenore Lukasik-Foss (of OCRCC) & Margaret MacPherson, and appeared in the Globe and Mail on May 30,…
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