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Job Description – Aboriginal Youth Worker

Job Description – Aboriginal Youth Worker Cultural Connection for Aboriginal Youth (CCAY) Initiative Are you looking to inspire Aboriginal Youth and be a part of a feminist, Anti-violence movement in Vancouver? As the Aboriginal Youth Worker at WAVAW you will have the opportunity to shape, guide and facilitate an ongoing group of urban Aboriginal Youth […]

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, talented, creative, caring, and beautiful volunteers! We don’t mean to brag (ok, maybe we do), but these women are phenomenal! They provide leadership and […]

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 layers of messed up.  Where to begin? Well, there’s the (deliberately?) misleading lumping-together of three very different ideas about rape.  The first and most provoking […]

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, Metis, Inuit and First Nations women to apply.  These positions are both one year Term-Certain full time positions. Closing date for applications is April 1st, 2013.  Please send […]

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 small selection of the events in our herstory—and to show our appreciation for all the women and allies who’ve contributed to our […]

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 Violence is not something that we as a society are unaware of; on the contrary, we are seeing more and more media images about women being abused, from […]

31 things BC can do right now to end violence against women

We believe that an end to violence against women and gender inequality is possible. Over the past two decades, reports and plans have filled bookshelves, filing cabinets and hard drives. These documents have been generated through community-based and academic research, though project evaluations and through government consultations. Many of these reports have been informed by […]