This toolkit provides a practical tool that allows organizations to apply an integrated anti-oppression framework to their practice. It will be useful for Executive Directors, Program Managers, Boards or Directors, and others who review and create policy in service organizations. This toolkit is designed to help community service organizations become better able to reflect the values, belief, and experiences of everyone in their community, and to ensure there are no barriers or inqualities within the organization's working practices and in how services are provided and to whom.
In this toolkit, the term "inclusion lens" refers to ways of looking at social and economic exclusion and inclusion. It is a tool for analyzing legislation, policy, programs, and practices to determine whether they promote the social and economic inclusion of individuals, families, and communities. It is designed to encourage transformations in how services, policies, and legislation are modified, developed, and re-conceptualized to ensure inclusivity for all people. The Inclusion Lens provides a way to being dialogue with excluded groups, raise awareness about how exclusion works, and identify steps to move toward policies, programs, and practices that will be inclusive.
This study explored some vital issues faced by on-reserve women's shelter directors and staff. Specifically, this study deals with the problems that many of these shelters face in their communications and transactions with Band Chiefs and Councils because of the way INAC (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada) funding flows. This study uncovers advantages and disadvantages of incorporating on-reserve shelters as non-profit entities with a governing Board of Directors, determines the advantages of an incorporated non-profit shelter entering into a Comprehensive Funding Arrangement (CFA) directly with INAC to receive funding, and explored the advantages and disadvantages of the NACAFV (National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence) becoming the administration vehicle for flow-through funding for First Nations on-reserve shelters.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB) scheme may be impressive on paper, but in practice, the Board fails to deliver needed support to victims of crimes. Unable to deliver on its mandate due in a timely way, or at all. Low budget and a consequent loss of independence from Ministry direction and government interference. Delivery of compensation is up by overly-bureaucratic processes, unnecessary delays such as waiting for a criminal justice process to be finished before processing applications, and inflexibility. Using a number of specific cases to illustrate the different ways in which the system is broken, the report concludes with a number of recommendations for remedying the system so that it may deliver on its promises.
This booklet seeks to promote a fair and accurate portrayal of people with disabilities. It recommends current and appropriate terminology. People with disabilities are asking Canadians, and the media in particular, to use respectful terms and images when writing and speaking about them or about issues that affect their lives. Attitudes can be the most difficult barrier people with disabilities face in achieving full integration, acceptance, and participation in society. We must be thoughtful about how we present information to move away from negative attitudes and shape positive ones. There are two sections in this booklet. The first has information on terminology and images that relate to people with disabilities. The second section looks specifically at recommendations for the media in its portrayal of people with disabilities.
This manual is designed for anti-violence feminist workers to engage in critical self-reflection while integratiing theory from a feminist anti-oppression framework into VAW practice. It can be challenging to understand how to apply this theoretical framework to our daily work. It is important to find practical ways of applying anti-racist anti-oppression (ARA) principles in practice, and it is equally important not to reinforce oppression in our own work with women. This manual is intended to raise consciousness of women who work in the feminist anti-violence sector to support on-going reflection and to prioritize the dignity and autonomy of the women they work with. This manual can be used to develop policies, engage in self-reflective practice, or as a discussion tool for staff meetings and training.
Twenty years after Ontario's Pay Equity Act was passed, Ontario women continued to suffer systemtic gender-based discrimination in pay. In this repot, the Equal Pay Coalition calls upon the Ontario government working with employers and trade untions to take both immediate policy shifts and to institute gender mainstreaming measures to close the gender pay gap. The report also highlights many different considerations which should be taken into account in building a culture of non-discrrimantory pay including: recognizing the equality role of government; need for planned, integrated and mutli-faceted approach; ensuring a pro-active, prevenatative and results-based approach; taking measures to build into public policy measures to close the pay gap; instituting the mapping and making visible women's diverse work and its pay inequalities; developing pay equality mechanisms for precarious work; and ensuring effective mechanisms. Includes statistics and analysis of the gender wage gap and gender-based pay discrimination.
This thematic report addresses the topic of gender-related killings of women. Gender-related killings are the extreme manifestation of existing forms of violence against women and are not isolated incidents that arise suddently. Women subjected to continuous violence and living under conditions of gender-based discrimination and threat are always under threat. Different manifestations of gender-related killings are rising and impunity remains the norm. States must act with due diligence in the promotion and prtection of women's rights.
Fifteen years after the creation of the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, the report reviews 15 years of work on the VAW mandate given to it as the mechanism for implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The report covers the tools developed to faciliate compliance with CEDAW, conceptual advances made by the mandate in relation to the human rights of women, and looks at challenges and potential for on-going work.
This interview-based study looks at the factors associated with shelter residence in women with recent histories of intimate partner violence (IPV). The study analyzes what factors affect whether or not women go to a shelter. Overall, it was found that ethinicity, income, housing stability, and mental health were significant factors affecting which women went to shelters. Trauma symptoms, housing instability, and ethnicity best predicted shelter residence.
This article was published in Violence Against Women 19(4), pp. 518-535 and is reproduced here with permission.
Authors: Maria M. Galano, Erin C. Hunter, Kathryn H. Howell, Laura E. Miller, and Sandra A. Graham-Bermann