Campaigns
Her Challenge, Your Challenge”
Take up the challenge
Rose Campaign’s National Action Day on Violence Against Women
YWCA Canada’s Rose Campaign to end violence against women and girls takes its name from the rose button created after 14 young women were murdered on December 6, 1989 and commemorates December 6 as Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The Rose Campaign works year-round to reduce violence against women, increase public awareness and prevent violence before it starts.
Women's Wolds 2011: Connect Converse 3 - 7 July, 2011
Conference registration will be available online in the fall of 2010. Registration will include login access to members-only sections of the website where participants can engage in networking, dialogue, action, and more
Women Building Peace and Fighting Sexual Violence in Conflict-Affected Areas
A Toolkit for Canadian Action on United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820
Say NO to Violence against Women
UNIFEM’s Say NO initiative is a global platform for advocacy and action, contributing towards the objectives of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women through social mobilization.
Disarming domestic violence
An International Campaign to Reduce Gun Deaths in the Home (June 2009 – December 2010) http://www.iansa.org/women The risk of physical harm, threats, and intimidation to women and children increases when a gun is present in the home. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 40-70% of all female homicides are committed by an intimate partner. In Canada the rate of spousal homicide against females has been between 3 and 5 times higher than the rate for males. One in three women killed by their husbands is shot, 88% of them with legally owned rifles and shotguns, the firearms of choice in domestic violence and suicide. The use of guns often results in multiple victims, many times children.
Man Talk
Finding postive ways to engage men to end violence against women
community initiatives
white ribbon campaign
resources & links
Reports
Hidden From Sight Volume II: A week in the life of Ottawa's vaw sector
Hidden From Sight
This report arose from a need to obtain a more global understanding of the current state of violence against women (woman abuse and sexual violence) in Ottawa.
May 2009
Launch
