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rape crisis workers organize against sexist violence
2009
Fleshmapping Press Conference
Abolitionist Women from the Philippines, India, South Korea, and Canada, talk about prostitution as unsafe for the women who are involved, whether in a brothel or on the street, and discuss current state of the laws and practices in various countries including Sweden and Norway as well. Listen to the conference at: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/30583

 

2006

Lee Lakeman: Distinguished Visitor in Women's Studies
Longtime collective member at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter, Lee Lakeman is being honored by Women's Studies Department of Windsor Ontario, for her contribution to the Canadian feminist anti-violence movement. She has been invited as a distinguished guest.
More Info on her bio and details of events

2004 Public Forum on Seeking an End to Women's Poverty
Moving Violence Against Women Back on to the Social Agenda
Part three of a series,
January 16, 2004
 
  Take Back the Night: No Woman is Free Until All Women are Free
2003 Women's Forum ~ March 12, 2003
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) criticizes the BC Government
View Event Poster
  Women and Legal Strategies
Moving Violence Against Women Back on to the Social Agenda
Part one of a series,
May 5, 2003 Vancouver 
  Vancouver's First Green Light District Opening
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter in collaboration with the Support Education and Action Group and local residents announce the opening of Vancouver's first Green Light District.
Green Light for Safety, West Ender Newspaper, October 2-8 2003
  Public Forum on Ending Prostitution
Moving Violence Against Women Back on to the Social Agenda

Part two of a series ,
Friday, October 10, 2003
2001 Women's Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization
The National Conference of the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres and our Feminist, Anti-Violence Worker Allies. 
CASAC / CAEFS Joint Press Statement
(CASAC's website, go to Current Campaigns, Post Conference News)
Despair and Resistance: a report from the conference in Ottawa
2000
World March of Women 2000
October 15-17, 2000: Ottawa, New York, Washington, DC
October 17, 2000: Vancouver Women's March Against Poverty and Violence, Vancouver Women's Tribunal on Women's Rights

We're marching to eliminate poverty and control the wealth.
We're marching to eliminate violence against women and control our bodies.
View video stream of the Women's March 2000 in New York
View video stream of the Women's Tribunal in Vancouver
If you cannot view the video stream of the Tribunal, read Vancouver Rape Relief's presentation.
What is the World March of Women 2000?
Canadian Women Organize
Christmas in the Transition House

1998  

Bonnie Ruth Agnew b. 1947 d. 8/17/98

1993  

Sexual Harassment: Examples & Fact Sheet

 

NAC Presentation On Crime Prevention to the Federal Parliamentary Committee

 

Women's Submission to the Oppal Commission

 

Rape Relief's Submission to the Oppal Commission

1986 The Rape Relief Files:
Prostitution: Legal History
PDF of front page of newspaper | Read newspaper 
Statements to the Left 1982-1986
1985 The Rape Relief Files:
Who killed Linda? 
Take Back The Night - Vancouver Herstory
1984 The Rape Relief Files:
The Patriarchs: Jim Pattison, Pornography
PDF of front page of newspaper | Read newspaper
The 'Witchiness of Women'
The Truth As We Know It
1982 Rape Questionnaires Rapped
Also available as PDF
Funny things happen on our way to revolution
Wanted: Red Hot Video ,The Red Hot Video Poster
The Rape Issue in Crisis
The Alliance for the Safety of Prostitutes
1981 House Opens
Movement Matters - Vancouver Rape Relief: Who we are and what we do originally published in Kinesis Magazine
1980 Who Will Speak for the Children?
Rape Relief Tours the 'War Zone'
1979 The Rape Relief Files:
Marching Against Rape
Rapist-Jogger
Put 'Rapel' out of Business
V.R.R.W.S.: Herstory Walkathon
1978 What about men? Housefunding Committee Celebrates 30 Years of Support
1975 Profile of the Rapist
Click to view our Feminism Card

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