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Relentless Resilience Research Report
Organization: Aura Freedom International
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Information and Fact Sheets, Report
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers, Service Users
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Advocacy and Education, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Femicide, Feminist Analysis, Financial Control, Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Harassment and Stalking, Including Survivors, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, Physical Violence, Policy, Programs and Services, Public Education, Sexual Violence, Specific Communities, Techniques for Working with Women and Children, Trauma, Types of Gender-Based Violence, VAW Practice
Language(s): English

The original Relentless Resilience report (2020), created as Canada’s Beijing +25 Parallel Report. It addresses gender-based violence through grassroots voices, survivor testimonies, and systemic analysis. The report connects GBV to all 12 Areas of Critical Concern from the Beijing Platform for Action, including femicide, sexual violence, forced marriage, human trafficking, and violence against Indigenous women.

Relentless Resilience 2 Research Report
Organization: Aura Freedom International
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Information and Fact Sheets, Report
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers, Service Users
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Advocacy and Education, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Femicide, Feminist Analysis, Financial Control, Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Harassment and Stalking, Harm Reduction, Including Survivors, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, Physical Violence, Policy, Programs and Services, Public Education, Resiliency, Self-Reflective Practice, Sexual Violence, Specific Communities, Strategies and Tools, Techniques for Working with Women and Children, Training Professionals, Trauma, Types of Gender-Based Violence, VAW Practice
Language(s): English

Published in 2021, this report is a follow-up to the original Relentless Resilience. It compiles grassroots consultations on Canada’s National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. The report includes community recommendations on prevention, law and justice, social infrastructure, and research/data collection, with strong emphasis on Indigenous women’s experiences.

Recognition of IPV as an Epidemic in Toronto: Brief
Organization: Aura Freedom International
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Information and Fact Sheets, Report
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Advocacy and Education, Child Abuse, Concepts and Analysis, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Femicide, Feminist Analysis, Financial Control, Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Government, Harassment and Stalking, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, Legislation and Policy, Physical Violence, Sexual Violence, Specific Communities, Strategies and Action Plans, Types of Gender-Based Violence, VAW Practice
Language(s): English

This advocacy brief, created with Women’s Habitat, calls on the City of Toronto to declare Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) an epidemic. It provides data on the underreporting of IPV, recent femicides, and the systemic roots of male violence against women. The document urges municipal recognition as a first step toward systemic change.

Les répercussions de la connectivité Internet et d’outils technologiques sur l’atténuation de l’isolement social et de la solitude des aînés pendant et après la pandémie
Organization: Provincial and Territorial (FPT) Forum of Ministers Responsible for Seniors
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Government Publication
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Researchers
Topic(s): Mental Health, Older Women, Older Women, Wellness
Language(s): French

This report examines the use of internet connectivity and technological tools among seniors, caregivers and senior-serving organizations, the impact of this on reducing seniors’ social isolation and loneliness during the pandemic, and how seniors’ usage of the internet and technology has changed from pre-pandemic.

THE IMPACT OF INTERNET CONNECTIVITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS ON REDUCING SENIORS’ SOCIAL ISOLATION AND LONLINESS DURING THE PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
Organization: Provincial and Territorial (FPT) Forum of Ministers Responsible for Seniors
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy
Audience(s):
Topic(s): Older Women, Wellness
Language(s): English

This report examines the use of internet connectivity and technological tools among seniors, caregivers and senior-serving organizations, the impact of this on reducing seniors’ social isolation and loneliness during the pandemic, and how seniors’ usage of the internet and technology has changed from pre-pandemic.

juillet feminicides 2025 French
Organization: OAITH - Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Information and Fact Sheets
Audience(s):
Topic(s): Femicide, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Public Education
Language(s): French

juillet feminicides 2025 French

Femicide in Ontario July 2025 English
Organization: OAITH - Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Information and Fact Sheets
Audience(s):
Topic(s): Femicide, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Public Education
Language(s): English

Femicide in Ontario from July 1st to July 31, 2025

The Journalist's Scorecard
Organization:
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Toolkit
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Adults, Advocacy and Education, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Children and Youth, Children and Youth, Concepts and Analysis, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Femicide, Feminist Analysis, Financial Control, Forced Marriage, GBV In The Media, Gender Identity, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Harassment and Stalking, Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-status Women, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, LGBT2SQIA, Older Women, Older Women, Physical Violence, Programs, Public Education, Racialized Women, Rural and Remote Communities, Sex Workers, Sexual Violence, Specific Communities, Strategies and Tools, Training Professionals, Types of Gender-Based Violence, Women with Disabilities, Working with Community
Language(s): English

The Journalist’s Scorecard is a tool to support usage of Aura Freedom’s Guidelines on GBV in the Media. The Scorecard summarizes key recommendations from the various themes of Aura Freedom's Guidelines on Gender-Based Violence in the Media. It is not meant to replace the Guidelines, but support media professionals in using the Guidelines and determining both areas of strength and opportunities for growth when writing and reporting on gender-based violence in Canada.

Guidelines on Gender-Based Violence In The Media
Organization:
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Toolkit
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Adults, Advocacy and Education, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Child Abuse, Children and Youth, Children and Youth, Concepts and Analysis, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Femicide, Feminist Analysis, Financial Control, Forced Marriage, GBV In The Media, Gender Identity, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Harassment and Stalking, Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-status Women, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, LGBT2SQIA, Older Women, Older Women, Physical Violence, Programs, Public Education, Racialized Women, Rural and Remote Communities, Sex Workers, Sexual Violence, Specific Communities, Strategies and Tools, Trauma, Women with Disabilities
Language(s): English

Media guidelines for transformative reporting on violence against women and gender-based violence, published by Aura Freedom. Learn more at gbvinthemedia.ca

Directives sur la violence basée sur le genre dans les médias
Organization:
Published: 2025
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy, Toolkit
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Adults, Advocacy and Education, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Children and Youth, Children and Youth, Concepts and Analysis, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Femicide, Feminist Analysis, Financial Control, Forced Marriage, GBV In The Media, Gender Identity, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Harassment and Stalking, Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-status Women, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, LGBT2SQIA, Older Women, Older Women, Physical Violence, Programs, Public Education, Racialized Women, Rural and Remote Communities, Sex Workers, Sexual Violence, Specific Communities, Strategies and Tools, Training Professionals, Types of Gender-Based Violence, Women with Disabilities, Working with Community
Language(s): French

GBV In The Media cherche à transformer la façon dont la violence fondée sur le genre (GBV) est représentée dans les médias canadiens.

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