Violence Against Women

Violence against women is a crime! Violence against women is a systemic oppression faced by women all over the world. It is unacceptable and should not be tolerated. Violence is always the responsibility of the abuser and is never justifiable. Violence against women transcends class, culture, race, and ethnicity.

Make it your responsibility to end violence against women in all of its forms.  Together we can make a difference.

Between June 1995 and November1998 69 women were killed by their current or former partner in Ontario alone. In addition, 15 of these women's children were Also murdered. In many instances others who knew these women, either knew abuse was happening but did not intervene, or had no knowledge of the severity of the situation. [Finding Our Voice, Education Wife Assault, 1998]

Estimated annual health related costs
Of violence against women in Canada
(in 1995) was $1,539,650,387
[Tanis Day, the Health related Costs of Violence against Women in Canada 1995]

In 1999, more than 27,000 cases of spousal violence were reported to police departments across the country.  Eighty-seven percent of the victims were women. 
[Bunge and Levett 2000, 21]

The 1999 General Social Survey found that in the five year period prior to the survey, 37% of women who had been victims of spousal violence had reported an incident tot the police.
[Statistics Canada 2000]

In 1996, approximately 80% of victims of criminal harassment were women.  Over half of all female victims of criminal harassment were harassed by ex-spouses or other intimate partners.
[Bunge and Levett 1998, 3]

Forty-two percent of women with DisAbilites have been or are in an abusive relationship.
[DisAbled Women’s Network 1989]

The financial cost of all types of violence against
women and children to health, social service, education,
employment and criminal justice systems
has been estimated at more than
$4 Billion annually in Canada
[Cunningham Report: Prevention of Violence Against Women, It's everyone's responsibility, Ontario Government, July 1997]

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