Submissions of West Coast LEAF - British Columbia Office of the Human Rights Commissioner

20.500.12592/bd8h17

Submissions of West Coast LEAF - British Columbia Office of the Human Rights Commissioner

30 Apr 2022

We urge the BCOHRC to make thorough inquiries into the lived experiences of diverse communities of survivors of gender-based violence and workers in the anti-violence sector to gather and centre their knowledge and experiences. [...] Moya Bailey, has been used to describe the distinct experiences of Black women and people who are perceived as having a female identity and recognizes that prejudice and discrimination is experienced on the basis of both race and gender.8 Misogyny also intersects with racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia to produce the prejudices that are fueling violence and discrimination against Muslim women.9. [...] In some regions where lockdowns were imposed, federal consultations with frontline organizations found a concerning increase of 20 to 30% in the rates of sexual and gender-based violence, and specifically intimate partner violence.15 A national survey from the Ending Violence Association of Canada found that, during the early period of the pandemic, 46% of gender-based violence service providers n. [...] Many of these harmful norms, including for example, misogynistic messages related to the subordination of women to men, the ownership of women by men, and the promotion of the use of physical violence in relationships, were recognized by the court in R. [...] The BCOHRC support Call for Justice 1.9 of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls that all governments “develop laws, policies, and public education campaigns to challenge the acceptance and normalization of violence.”50 48 Marian Duggan and Hanna Mason-Bish, “A feminist theoretical exploration of misogyny and hate crime,” in Misogyny as Hate Crime, ed.

Authors

Humera Jabir

Pages
12
Published in
Canada