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Women with disabilities are more likely to experience intimate partner violence: 55%, compared with 37% of women without disabilities (Statistics Canada).
Yet shelters, transit, and support services aren't always accessible. Accessibility is a safety issue.
#AWHL #DisabilityJustice,
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Across Ontario this month, you'll see purple. 馃挏
For Wrapped in Courage, people in communities, shelters, and workplaces are wearing purple scarves for Woman Abuse Prevention Month, sending survivors a simple message: you're not alone.
#AWHL #WrappedInCourage,
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In a 2021 study by the Canadian Centre for Women's Empowerment, about 96% of women in the Ottawa region who experienced domestic abuse also experienced economic abuse.
Control over money is control over safety.
#AWHL #EconomicAbuse,
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Financial independence is a safety issue.
Affordable housing, accessible childcare, and fair wages aren't separate from ending violence against women. They're how women afford to be safe.
#AWHL #EconomicAbuse,
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November is Woman Abuse Prevention Month in Ontario.
This Thursday also marks one year since the Ontario Legislature unanimously recognized intimate partner violence as "endemic."
Prevention means acting before harm happens: healthy-relationship education, early support, and services funded to meet the need.
#AWHL #WomanAbusePreventionMonth,
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MYTH: Once she leaves, she's safe.
Separation can be one of the most dangerous times in an abusive relationship. That's why leaving should be planned, at her pace, with support. Never rushed, never forced.
#AWHL #SafetyPlanning,
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Good news from Manitoulin Island. 馃挏
Wiikwemkoong has celebrated the opening of Val's Place: seven units of transitional housing, with 15 beds, at the Nookomisnaang Shelter, offering safe housing, counselling, and support for people and families experiencing family violence.
Help close to home, grounded in community.
#AWHL #EndGBV,
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Survivors are experts in their own lives.
The systems meant to protect them work best when they're designed with survivors, not just for them: in policy, in courts, and in how services are funded and run.
#AWHL #SurvivorLed,
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Threatening to share someone's intimate images is now a crime in Canada, including fake, AI-generated ones.
The law has caught up to how abuse happens now. Platforms, police, and courts need to keep pace, with fast takedowns and survivors taken seriously the first time.
#AWHL #ImageBasedAbuse,
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Good news for survivors in rural communities. 馃挏
The federal government has announced up to $472,100 in new funding for She Matters United, expanding its work in Ontario, Yukon, the NWT, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Manitoba to improve support for survivors of sexualized violence in rural communities.
Distance shouldn't decide who gets support.
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We teach girls to watch out for strangers.
We should teach them, just as clearly, what control looks like in someone they love: checking their phone, choosing their friends, making them feel guilty for time apart.
For women, violence most often comes from someone they know.
#AWHL #HealthyRelationships,
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Canada's new Protecting Victims Act strengthened the Criminal Code's criminal harassment provisions.
A stronger law is a start. It only works if police, Crown attorneys, and courts look at the whole pattern of following, watching, and unwanted contact, not just the latest incident.
#AWHL #EndGBV,
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