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@VanRapeRelief

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A feminist collective dedicated to ending male violence against women. We operate a 24 hour rape crisis line & transition house for women. 604-872-8212

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Joined November 2011
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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A follow up to the dead rat that was nailed to our door recently... this morning we found this writing scrawled across the windows of our storefront space that we use for support and training groups #Misogyny
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@VanRapeRelief
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Have you experienced sexual assault? We can help. Call our 24-hour crisis line at 604-872-8212. #BelieveWomen
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@VanRapeRelief
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Thank you everyone who's come down already to support us today. We are grateful for all the support we've received so far. From those who have written in on our behalf to those who will be speaking today. Until We Win. #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr
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@VanRapeRelief
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We are extremely disappointed by the City of Vancouver’s intent not to fund our public education work and the message it sends to the women who seek out a women-only group as part of their resistance to male violence. #VanCityCouncil #fail #women #womenresistance #womenonly
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@VanRapeRelief
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We have been receiving many messages of solidarity and donations from around the world. We are encouraged and grateful for this tremendous support. #vanpoli #sisterhood #solidarity #resistance
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@VanRapeRelief
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2 years
Sisterhood is powerful! Congratulations @beirasplace and @jk_rowling for the new women-only sexual assault support centre for #women and #girls in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
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For those who need it... @beirasplace
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Discrimination Against Women in the Name of Inclusion: A Statement From Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter #bcpoli #vanpoli #WomensLiberation
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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A massive thanks to @Glinner , Debbie Hayton, Ella Witchwood, and of course, everyone who contributed to the GoFundMe campaign! We're so grateful for the support and solidarity from across the pond!
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We cannot fight for #womensliberation and the end of #maleviolenceagainstwomen alone. We are extremely grateful for all the support we've received today and in the past few days - having you all join us, speaking in support, and writing into the #VancouverCityCouncil . #UntilWeWin
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"We are gonna do this work no matter what and we are gonna continue to offer the same level of service to women and anyone that calls our lines" #womenresistance #womenonly #womensrights #womenorganizing #VRR #shame #VanCityCouncil
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@VanRapeRelief
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A note on language... It's important not to erase and disguise Male Violence against Women. So instead of "Gender Based Violence" or "Intimate Partner Violence", say explicitly what it is: "Male violence against women in domestic/intimate relationships".
@TheCurrentCBC
The Current on CBC Radio
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On today’s show: We hear the story of a sisterhood of survivors, who say they endured an abusive relationship with the same man, and want to warn others. Plus, reviving the endangered art of handwriting; and a major leak of top secret U.S. intelligence.
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@VanRapeRelief
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We applied for the grant again this year to make it clear that all levels of government have an obligation, and should be proud, to fund the equality-seeking work of independent women’s groups. #VanCityCouncil #fail #women #vancouver #womenresistance #womenonly
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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We stand with our sisters, Lesbian Rights Alliance Aotearoa, and support the feminist kaupapa from which they act
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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Tannis Larsen: The city wants to make it harder for #women to gather by withholding funds if they don't agree to change the way they organize. Nothing is being added to #yvr by this coercive move, but something immensely valuable is being forced out of women's hands. #raperelief
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#Women of #BritishColumbia ! if an #abortion isn't accessible wherever you are in BC, we invite you to come to #Vancouver . We will help you to get here, house you & if you don't have residency status, we'll help you pay for the abortion. call us any time 604-872-8212 #sisterhood
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@VanRapeRelief
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Our love and solidarity with the thousands of women who marched in the streets of London today demanding an end to male violence against women! #IWD2023 #InternationalWomensDay2023 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #mwr2023 #WhyWeRise #powertothewomen
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Million Women Rise
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Bradford Wimmin reach the front of the march....leading! #mwr2023 #WhyWeRise #powertothewomen
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@VanRapeRelief
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Pictures from yesterdays' evening in Downtown #YVR . The women who did the postering action are Vancouver Rape Relief's callers. These women are rightfully fed up with the Criminal (in)Justice System refusal to hold abusive men accountable. #Resistance #Sisterhood
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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No woman is free until all women are free! @SPACEintl #Prostitution Survivors March opening the world congress of @CAPintl #EqualityInAction
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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Canada’s top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as ‘person with a vagina’ Vancouver’s rape relief shelter says the ‘blurring of language’ doesn’t serve the fight to end male violence against women from @TheTelegraph__
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VancouverRapeRelief
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Linda Shuto (former teacher and BCTF): " #WomenOnlySpace is not a challenge or a threat to transwomen. It is a model for the liberation of born women." #vancitycouncil #raperelief #radfem #yvr
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VancouverRapeRelief
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" #Female #oppression is innately connected to our ability to reproduce. Women have made progress by talking about biology, menstruation, childbirth and menopause. We won’t now have our bodies or voices written out of the script." #womenonly #feminism
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A good writing by our member Laurel McBride. Pornography harms women. If you truly wish to be ethical partners, you will divest yourself from profiting off the sexual exploitation of women and girls. #NoMorePorn via @AJEnglish
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We are waiting now for the councillors @vancityconcil to come back from the break to deliberate and make their decision. We are so grateful for all the people who were able to come today. @VanCityCouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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The Court just delivered its decision: Canada’s prostitution laws are constitutional! Congratulations to the Women's Equality Coalition for this important ruling! #CanadaProstitution
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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. @Lizasaa "The abuse I endured wasn't because I identified as a girl, it was because I was a girl." @VanCityCouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr
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There is a significant overrepresentation of Indigenous women and black women among the women in #prostitution who call our crisis lines. We are standing in solidarity with the Abolitionist in Spain #Abolici ónProstituciónYa!
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Right now … members of our Funding Alliance are canvassing Vancouver’s streets. 📷 #solidarity #yvr
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"Graham was very grateful but didn't feel like he could keep the money. He would like to give some to @VanRapeRelief " ? pc=tw_dn_cpgntopnavlarge_r&rcid=r01-155398967334-7b3c48e551334e9b #solidarity #WomenOnlySpace
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Ashani: “If all we could offer women was a bed to escape an abuser, we would burn out from this work. We pride ourselves on the fact that we are ultimately fighting for women’s liberation..." (1/2) #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief
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VancouverRapeRelief
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. @kylefarq “By suspending funding to @VanRapeRelief , the council has achieved the opposite of what they intended to do: fight discrimination. This discrimination is against female-born people who have endured the trauma of male violence." #womenonly #radfem #vancitycouncil
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The harm of #pornography “Sexual strangulation, nearly always of women in heterosexual pornography, has long been a staple on free sites, those default sources of sex ed for teens. As with anything else, repeat exposure can render the once appalling appealing. “
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. @VanCityClerk The City Councillors have been asking questions about us and the work we do to every speaker but US. We can answer all their questions. #where #is #the #democracy #vancitycouncil
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“A safe space for me and countless other women is a #womenonly space organized from #feminist principles, a space that’s offered by and for women who are born female” @lizasaa #raperelief #radfem
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The @RioTheatre is having a screening in CELEBRATION of Deep Throat. “Every time somebody sees that movie, they're watching me being raped... there was a gun to my head the entire time." Linda Boreman (aka Linda Lovelace)
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On March 14, 2019, at the end of a flawed and unfair process, Vancouver City Council voted to terminate the yearly grant given to us in support of our public education work. #VanCityCouncil #fail #women #vancouver #womenresistance #womenonly
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VancouverRapeRelief
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We're at @CityofVancouver today with our supporters speaking to the importance of funding a grassroots women's group. You can follow it live #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr
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Maria Wong: "VRR is a pillar for the community to end #maleviolenceagainstwomen . VRR affects 1.2M women in #YVR - many attend events, donate on the street, help with childcare & fundraise. This is how you build a community." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem
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Because I was a girl, Because I am a woman... What is your experience of being a girl and a woman in this patriarchal world? #sisterhood
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@VanRapeRelief
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We believe women! If you've experienced sexual assault and want support, call our 24-hour crisis line at 604-872-8212. #KavanaughHearings #WeBelieveHer
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Great news from Spain: a new bill that criminalizes third party profiting off of prostitution and those who by women in prostitution while decriminalizing those who are prostituted, has been tabled by the minister of equality. #abolition #prostitution
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🇪🇸 La CAP llama a la adopción de la proposición de Ley Orgánica para prohibir el proxenetismo en todas sus formas, registrada el 19/03/2024. Esta ley representa un gran paso adelante para la abolición del sistema de prostitución en España. Comunicado⬇️
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Adam Abrams: "I ask that #VanCityCouncil stand up for women instead of aiding and abetting those who would attack them. I ask that they again restore the funding they offered for so long" #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #vancouver
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Lee Lakeman responds to Judy Rebick's “My Feminism is Trans Inclusive”
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@SPACEintl Survivors March at the world congress of @CAPintl #EqualityInAction
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Tom Kemsley: "Distinct groups need to have distinct services. Let groups focus on one vulnerable group & not ask them to take on what other groups need." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr @CityofVancouver
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@PGtwweets @Slipstream60 @beirasplace @jk_rowling Oh yes, we are definitely here. Not going anywhere. We got the love and solidarity of so many women. We are as strong as ever! <3
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72% of the women who are staying in our transition house are women of colour and #indigenousWomen . 78% of them are living in poverty and 18% of them are working in low paid jobs. #sisterhood #poverty
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@TheCurrentCBC @mattgallowaycbc @MarciIen We must name it if we genuinely want to stop it. No more #femicide no more #maleviolenceagainstwomen
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Erin Graham: "VRRWS has received this money for the purpose of educating the public about VAW and women's resistance against our sex-based oppression. This reason has not gone away. Women are still overwhelmingly at risk." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr
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Danielle Cormier: “We can meet the needs of #women and trans women. One does not have to come at the expense of the other. I was best served by an organization that prioritized my experiences.” #radfem #raperelief @vancitycouncil #yvr
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Tannis Larsen: "Thru the group, I realized that I wasn't to blame for my attacks... males are conditioned to treat females as inferior & we're expected to submit & know we will be punished for resisting." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr @CityofVancouver
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@VanRapeRelief
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We are encouraged and reinforced by Reem Alsalem's statement. "I am concerned about the decreasing space available for women and women’s organizations to organize and/or express their opinion peacefully in several countries in the Global North."
@UN_SPExperts
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Allow women and girls to speak on sex, gender & #genderidentity  without intimidation or fear - @UNSRVAW : “Discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation is prohibited in international and regional human rights law."
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Karla Gjini: "300 new women each year connect with each other and expose the male violence committed against them, some for the first time, through our volunteer program - which is created and facilitated by women who’ve previously participated." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace
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“That is where I stand as a radical African feminist on the sacred spaces we have carved out, often with our very lives, and I am not prepared to share them with any man, as long as males continues to be privileged by patriarchy.” Patricia McFadden #WomensSpace #Resistance
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Listen to @jillreports interview with @HillaKerner this morning on the Jill Bennett show @CKNW on #WomenOnly space and services. 41.25 to the podacast #WomensLiberation
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What we know from our work with women in #prostitution
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@VanRapeRelief
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Huge thanks to the hundreds of people that made the 40th anniversary of the Walk for Rape Relief such a huge success!
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Another devastating #femicide in #BritishColumbia The mother of six-year-old and six-month-old daughters was described as loving, outgoing and "always had a smile on her face," by her mother, Leslie Thomas.
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#vancouver women protesting the acquittal of #Ghomeshi We believe women!
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Happy International Women's Day #IWD21
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@VanRapeRelief
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TODAY is the day! In just a few hours we’ll open @CAPintl 4th World Congress for the #Abolition of #Prostitution with Survivors March led by @SPACEintl and supported by @_LaCLES #EqualityInAction
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Applause to all our sisters in Canada and around the world for all the resistance work women are leading! #IWD2019 #WomensLiberation #Sisterhood #Solidarity #Resistance
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Fay Blaney & #AboriginalWomensActionNetwork : "As an elder, I want to clarify that our understanding of 5 gender is really misunderstood. We don't place labels and don't use man, woman, lesbian, gay, transgender." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr
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@VanRapeRelief
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Thank you to the Sangam Sister's Society for their hospitality at the Canada Day Celebration 2019. We are so grateful for their support of our fight to end male violence against women.
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Have you experienced sexual assault? We can help. Call our 24-hour crisis line at 604-872-8212. #MeToo #TimesUp #BelieveWomen
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Because I was a girl, Because I am a woman... What is your experience of being a girl and a woman in this patriarchal world? #sisterhood
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Three in ten #women in #Canada were victims to at least one #sexualAssault since they turned 15
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Margaret Mead: "If, on reaching majority, each woman were to be assured a guaranteed annual income for life, and given the same security as her brother, both instituting and continuing in a marriage would be matters of free choice." #GuaranteedLivableIncome #GLI #BasicIncome
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SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 17 - Feminist Conversation about #femicide
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The reality of #prostitution Video #1 what we know from our front line work. We are standing in solidarity with the Abolitionist in Spain #Abolici ónProstituciónYa!
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@Glinner We are grateful for your support. #Solidarity #WomenOnlySpace
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Vincent Okolo: "The work VRR is doing is necessary and needed. You all have committed to making sure Vancouver is a safe city in which women are secure. Surely local grassroots groups like @VanRapeRelief help achieve this goal." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief
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Good news! The Women Equality Coalition has been granted leave to intervene at the constitutional challenge to Canada's prostitutions law. #abolitionprostituion #canada
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65% of the women in #prostitution who call our crisis lines tell us they are dependent on drugs and/or alcohol. We are standing in solidarity with the Abolitionist in Spain #Abolici ónProstituciónYa!
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Karla Gjini: "Public education is crucial to changing the way society views women so we will continue to offer it as we have always done. You should be proud, as the elected officials of our city, who value inclusiveness and equity above all, to contribute to this work." #yvr
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VancouverRapeRelief
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Ashani: "That when we answer the phone we are not only responding to a woman who has been raped but also fighting for a world where there is no more RAPE.” (2/2) #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief
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"But when #women are beaten and murdered by their intimate partners, silence, acceptance and the refusal to judge are not virtues, but are cowardly, and indeed, immoral. " #Edmonton #Canada #male #violence #against #women
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VancouverRapeRelief
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Eder Poli: "Educating the public is imperative for giving women a fair place in our society, and once they have that no woman will call Vancouver Rape Relief again. No more grants will be needed." #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr @CityofVancouver
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VancouverRapeRelief
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. @gavinaword : We must allow people to seek liberation on their own terms - helping them when we can! - but not making that help contingent on them following our lead, however good our intentions are from the outside of that struggle. #vancitycouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief
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VancouverRapeRelief
1 year
If you are in Europe, this is where you should be this Saturday, February 4th. Brilliant women, brilliant politics. #womensliberation #SisterhoodIsPowerful
@Womans_Place_UK
Woman’s Place UK
1 year
Over 800 women (& some men), 5 keynotes, 5 panels, 21 workshops, 4 networking breakouts & a film. LAST FEW TICKETS REMAINING Sat 4th Feb 9am-late The Institute Of Education #UCL #Ed4WomensLib @akuareindorf @joannaccherry @bindelj @HJoyceGender @Docstockk
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#Femicide : the motive is #Misogyny
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VancouverRapeRelief
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Women of Colour: Experience of Male Violence and Poverty | Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter
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VancouverRapeRelief
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. @GC_Allison The @BCProvCourt and the Court of Appeal both held that VRRWS is an #equalityseeking organization and, as such, is entitled to the benefits of section 41 of the #HumanRights Code…. (1/3)
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@VanRapeRelief
VancouverRapeRelief
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"The police’s complicity in men’s violence against women extends beyond their refusal to arrest. We continue to follow public cases of male officers who themselves commit acts of violence against women."
@VIAwesome
Vancouver Is Awesome
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"The vast majority of women will be failed by the criminal justice system."
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