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#30YearsAndStillCounting As of 2019 we know of more than 780 Femicides over the past 30 years in Ontario. We work to ensure that we remember the lives lost, bring attention to the violence women experience, and take action to move our list to zero.
Violence Against Women Shelters across the province are mobilizing to ensure Ontarians are educated, aware, and willing to help put an end to men’s violence against women. Now in its 7th year, OAITH’s Wrapped in Courage Campaign invites all Ontarians to show their support by purchasing a purple scarf from their local Women’s Shelter. The courage…
OAITH fully endorses the recommendations put forth by Luke's Place on Ontario's Family Law Review Consultation Process. To learn more about the recommendations, read our Endorsement Letter
To learn more about Aging Without Violence and our Key Recommendations to Government on the Ontario Senior Strategy read our full submission here
Check out our June 2019 Edition of Working on the Front Lines of Gender Injustice
This 10-month introductory program offers instruction and hands-on experience in the core aspects of filmmaking: screenwriting, producing, directing, cinematography, editing, pre and post production, composing and marketing. This introductory program is open to individuals with little to no experience.
Brief submitted by The Aging Without Violence Project on behalf of OAITH to The House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO)
Learn more about the 10 Recommendations OAITH has put forth to The House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women to improve the lives of older women across Canada.
Download the brief here.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Bringing Together Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Sectors:
Implications for Research, Policy, & Practice
June 13 & 14, 2019
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
The University of Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of
Graduate Students, Community Partner, and Faculty Reflect on Critical Community Engaged Scholarship and Gender Based Violence
Written by: Mavis Morton, Annie Simpson, Carleigh Smith, Ann Westbere, Ekaterina Pogrebtsova and Marlene Ham
From the abstract:
We examined our principled and collaborative process of critical community engaged scholarship geared toward addressing violence against women, and more specifically, femicide. Our research resulted in knowledge mobilization tools that could be used to inform various audiences (e.g., women's shelter staff, the public, government, and journalists) about how mainstream media sources report and portray the issue of femicide. Our work had an explicit…