Today, Toronto City Council declared Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) an epidemic.
Representatives from EVA Renfrew County, which had standing at the June 2022 Inquest into the deaths of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam (CKW Inquest) made the 400km trip to Toronto today in solidarity and support of Mayor Chow’s motion to adopt Recommendation #1 from the CKW Inquest Jury.
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National Volunteer Week is a Canada-wide campaign to recognize, celebrate and thank all volunteers across the country.
For Luke’s Place, just as we rely on our donors to help fund our organization, we rely on the leadership of our board of directors, the compassion and commitment of our Legal Support Volunteers,
International Women’s Day is a global day to recognize and celebrate women’s and girls’ social, economic, cultural, and political achievements. It’s also a time to raise awareness of the progress made towards achieving gender equality and the work remaining to be done.
For Luke’s Place, that work continues to be raising awareness about and supporting women fleeing abusive partners as they navigate the family law process.
On February 22, 2023, Luke’s Place Advocacy Director, Pamela Cross, was featured on the podcast “Clearing a New Path” hosted by Shauna Rae. This episode discusses the Inquest into the 2015 triple femicide in Renfrew County.
Pam highlights key recommendations from the jury and highlights the Inquest Advocacy Toolkit she created with Luke’s Place to assist organizations that do not have the time or resources to develop their own advocacy strategy and tools.
December 6, 2022 – As we observe the 16 Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence and the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, the announcement of charges in the murder of four Indigenous women at the hands of an alleged serial killer linked to white supremacist ideology is a tragic indication that the urgent action long called for by Indigenous women,
On this day 33 years ago, 14 women were murdered and 10 others were injured at the Universite de Montreal’s École Polytechnique in a devastating act of violence fueled by misogyny. These women were killed for no other reason than the fact that they were women. To honour these women, December 6th is recognized as The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 we recognize the 10th annual #GivingTuesday, a global generosity movement created in 2012. We hope that you will support our work to increase women’s access to justice by providing timely and critical family law support services to Ontario women who’ve left abusive relationships,
As advocates who developed a Roadmap for the National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence, we have been anxiously waiting for the release of this 10-year plan. This statement is our joint reaction to the federal government’s release on November 9, 2022, of its long-awaited National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence,
Follow us on Twitter for the next 16 days as we focus on key action to eliminate violence against women. The theme this year is “UNITE! To end violence against women and girls by 2030”.
We’ll be focused on calling for the implementation of 16 key recommendations from the recent CKW Inquest.
Today, on November 25th, we acknowledge the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the first day of 16 Days of Action to Eliminate Violence Against Women around the world.
Over the last couple of years, violence against women has gotten worse, not better. As Pamela Cross explores on her blog:
More women report feeling unsafe than before COVID-19.
