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Protecting Your Autonomy in an Online World

At Salal, discussions about sexual violence means acknowledging the profound harms that result from not having complete autonomy of your body. Marginalized people are even more susceptible to their bodily autonomy being compromised when we live in a society built on misogyny, colonialism, white supremacy, transphobia and homophobia. Over the past decade, there has been […]

Transformative Justice at WAVAW: An Introduction

We’re excited to announce that WAVAW is now offering Transformative Justice as part of our wrap-around-service delivery model! Working with survivors of sexualized violence for nearly 40 years has given us first-hand experience to know that engagement with the police and the criminal legal system to bring charges against perpetrators doesn’t necessarily provide the feeling of […]

Department for Women and Gender Equality Announce Funding for WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre’s Five-Year Meaningful Inclusion Project

For Immediate Release  Vancouver. August 27 2019. On August 27th, 2019, the  Honourable Maryum Monsef, Canada’s Minister of International Development and Women and Gender Equality, announced $985,000 in funding over five years for WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre’s Meaningful Inclusion project. Funded through the Department for Women and Gender Equality’s Gender-Based Violence: Promising Practices to Support […]

WAVAW’s New Inclusion Project

WHAT WAVAW is launching a 3-year project which will expand WAVAW’s services to serve trans, Two Spirit, and gender diverse survivors of sexual assault to increase access to services and support for healing and justice. WHY We recognize that Two-Spirit, trans, and gender diverse community members are at a particularly high risk of violence due to […]

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 Safety?” “That’s pretty good.  Or ECHO Against Gendered Violence?  ECHO would stand for Everyone Can Help Organize.” “Yeah, I like how both of those highlight collective responsibility.  […]