Women

Elevating Indigenous women’s voices is critical to addressing gendered colonial violence

Apr 3, 2019

These are the voices of Indigenous women survivors documented in a powerful new report, Red women rising: Indigenous women survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The comprehensive study centres the stories of Indigenous women living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The research grew out of activities around the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and was carried… View Article

Human Rights Commission has opportunity to change workplace culture around sexual harassment

Jan 25, 2019

By Bethany Hastie

Sexual harassment in the workplace has been a focus of recent talk and action, spurred on by the #MeToo movement. As one of many ways in which women continue to experience inequality at work, more needs to be done to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. The forthcoming BC Human Rights Commission is well-positioned to… View Article

Legal Aid Denied: A 20th Anniversary retrospective

Oct 20, 2017

By Alison Brewin

Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC was written in 2004 shortly after the election of a neo-conservative Liberal government in BC. The report outlined the nature of the changes this government quickly introduced to the provision of Legal Aid in BC including slashing funding from almost $100 million to… View Article

Tracking the gender gap in Canada’s big cities: How’s BC doing?

Oct 18, 2017

By Iglika Ivanova

A new report released today uncovers important gaps in the experiences of men and women across Canada. The CCPA’s annual study of the Best and Worst Places to be a Woman in Canada by Kate McInturff ranks the country’s largest cities according to the gaps between men’s and women’s access to economic security, education, health,… View Article

Economic insecurity touches seniors’ lives in profound ways

Apr 6, 2017

By Terra Poirier and Iglika Ivanova

Photographs by Caelie Frampton In the spring of 2016, the CCPA’s Terra Poirier and photographer Caelie Frampton met with three local seniors to document their lived experience of poverty and inequality. The images and stories of these women paint a sobering picture of what life is like when the hardships of living with a low… View Article

Recap of our 2016 Rosenbluth Lecture with Pierre Fortin

Dec 8, 2016