This Information Bulletin will provide an overview of the changes to family law contained in the Family Law Act. The focus here is on changes that will have the most impact on women and children who experience violence in their … Continue reading
Policy, Legislative and Legal Analysis
Violence Against Women and Their Children in BC: 33 Years of Recommendations
Download file (pdf) EVA BC’s report, Violence Against Women and Their Children in BC: 33 Years of Recommendations, reviews studies and reports issued throughout the last 33 years and delivers a compilation of a number of critical recommendations that describe … Continue reading
The Role of Canadian Immigration Laws and Policies in Relation to Women’s Safety: A Lawyer’s Compendium
Contains all briefing notes produced by the project, as well as information on submissions on specific reforms in process and EVA BC recommendations to the jury and presiding coroner at the Lee Inquest in December 2009. Download (pdf)
Immigrant Women’s Project: Safety of Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women
This resource guide contains a collection of the primary resource documents created by the Safety of Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women project. It includes our research, consultations that identified the barriers facing immigrant, non-status, and refugee women and recommendations detailed … Continue reading
Safety for Immigrant, Refugee and Non-Status Women: Submission to the Public Commission on Legal Aid
These submissions were made on behalf of the Ending Violence Association of BC (EVA BC) to the Public Commission on Legal Aid on October 8, 2010. These submissions pertain specifically to legal aid services for abused immigrant, refugee, and non-status … Continue reading
Federal Briefing Note 1: Needs of Women without Status as a Result of Leaving an Abusive Spouse
Download file (pdf) This document is one of a series of six federal and eight provincial Briefing Documents produced by the Ending Violence Association’s Community Coordination for Women’s Safety Program as part of its Safety for Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status … Continue reading
Provincial Briefing Note 1: Legal Aid for Abused Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women
Download File (pdf) This document is one of a series of six federal and eight provincial Briefing Documents produced by the Ending Violence Association’s Community Coordination for Women’s Safety Program as part of its Safety for Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status … Continue reading
Women Being Arrested Backgrounder
This Community Coordination for Women’s Safety (CCWS) Backgrounder, “Women Being Arrested”, was originally released in September 2007 under the title “Dual Arrest in Cases of Relationship Violence”. In recent years, CCWS and EVA BC have received numerous reports from communities … Continue reading
Provincial Briefing Note 8: Training on Violence Against Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women
Download file (pdf) This document is one of a series of six federal and eight provincial Briefing Documents produced by the Ending Violence Association’s Community Coordination for Women’s Safety Program as part of its Safety for Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women Project.
Provincial Briefing Note 7: Coordination of Responses to Immigrant, Refugee, & Non-Status Women who are Victims of Violence
Download file (pdf) This document is one of a series of six federal and eight provincial Briefing Documents produced by the Ending Violence Association’s Community Coordination for Women’s Safety Program as part of its Safety for Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women Project.