Help For Women

Women! Has a man in your life ever: Hit you? Pushed you around? Called you names, such as stupid, ugly crazy, nagging, etc? Stopped you from seeing your friends or leaving the house? Done things to frighten you or threaten you? You do not deserve to be treated this way!

Call Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. Rape Relief operates a transition house for women and their children and a 24 crisis line for women who are trying to prevent or escape male violence.

For help, information, and/or a place to stay while you get your plans together call us:
604.872.8212
All our services are free and confidential.

Women Volunteers Needed

VRRWS needs women who are interested in volunteering for the 24 Hour Crisis Line or the Transition House for Women & their Children. Training sessions are Tuesday evenings. For more information and a training interview, please call us at 604.872.8212.

Announcements

United Nations criticizes Canada for its response to women's equality issues

A key United Nations human rights monitoring body has issued a report highly critical of Canada’s record on women’s human rights. More Info

Support the 2009 Walk for Rape Relief on May 31st, 2009!

Although the Walk is over, there is still time to hand in your pledges! Thanks to the over 200 participants who helped make our Walk so successful

Event Information

We are currently hiring!
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Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter has received the YMCA’s Power of Peace award as a Local Peacemaker! In bestowing this award to Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter, the YMCA recognises VRRWS' 36 years of fighting violence against women.

Vancouver Rape Relief receives the YMCA Local Peacemaker Award
Jacqueline Gullion accepting the YMCA Peacemaker Award on behalf of VRRWS

>> View all of the YMCA Power of Peace Awards recommendation letters

New(s) on our site!

Jaclyn Friedman: We Are All Polanski's Victims, and We All Deserve Justice
"...rape isn't just a crime against one person... The act violates what should be one of our core values as a civilization: that every person of every gender and age has the right to bodily autonomy — to basic safety in our bodies. When that right is violated and the perpetrator goes unpunished, it makes all of us less safe..."
>> Read the entire article

Every year in Canada, over 50 women are killed by their male partners.

End the murder of women by their male partners!

>> View the growing list of women murdered this year.