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Celebrating the Origins of Mother’s Day!
Dedicated, Talented, Caring Women
Dedicated, Talented, Caring Women These are just a few of the words that describe our volunteers. April 21-27 is National Volunteer Week and we’re taking this opportunity to honour our brilliant,...
Rape Culture is Real—And Yes, We’ve Had Enough
Rape Culture is Real—And Yes, We’ve Had Enough In 2012 a group calling itself Vancouver MRA (Men’s Rights Activists) plastered our fair city with hundreds of posters. Oh, the bottomless, slimy...
Breaking News!
WAVAW Joins Forces with Vancouver Community College to Address the Root Causes of Violence By Alana Prochuk, Campus Anti-Violence Initiative Coordinator “How about OURS—Organize and Unite to Realize...
Job Posting – Aboriginal Family Counsellor
Aboriginal Family Counsellor WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre is seeking two Aboriginal Family Counsellors who are committed to a Feminist Anti-Oppression approach to their work. We encourage Aboriginal,...
Are You Kidding Me?
Have you ever come across something so ridiculously offensive and misogynistic that the only possible respond, short of putting out your own eyes, is to scream “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!” Well, we...
Join WAVAW in Celebrating 30 Years of Action to Eliminate Violence Against Women
On International Women’s Day 2013, WAVAW has a lot to celebrate: three decades of hard-won achievements in the struggle to create a society where all women are free from violence. To commemorate a...
Stop Victim-Blaming
Our response to the negative and hateful comments towards Maggie and the photographer, Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, in the project "Photographer as Witness: A Portrait of Domestic Violence" Domestic...
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