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

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is nominated for the YMCA’s Power of Peace award as a Local Peacemaker
>> View the entire YMCA Power of Peace Awards event PDF

Montréal Massacre Memorial Event
Saturday, December 5th, 2009, 10am to 6pm
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter invites you to participate in a day of action to end violence against women.

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter Remembers the Montreal Massacre

Saturday, December 5th, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Vancouver Public Library,
350 West Georgia Street,
Vancouver, BC.
All events are free.
>> View the event brochure PDF
>> See previous December 6th Montréal Memorial events

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, and we don't prosecute it in order to fulfill any one victim's needs or wishes. Rape is a crime against the social fabric that binds all of us together. 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.