Understanding Violence

Resources

Internet Resources

International Resources:

• Amnesty International ‘Stop Violence Against Women’
• The Info Project: End Violence Against Women
• Hot Peach Pages, International Domestic Violence and Abuse Agencies List
• VAWnet
• International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
• Raising Voices: Preventative Approached to Violence Against Women and Children
• Human Rights Watch
• Violence against women and the culture of masculinity (pdf)
• Feminist.com violence against women features
• World Health Organization department of gender, women and health
• National Organization for Women and Violence Against Women
• Independent Living Institute: Violence against women with disabilities
• World conference against racism: At the Crossroads of Gender and Racial Discrimination
• Incite! Women of color against violence

Canadian Resources:

• Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children
• DisAbled Women’s Women’s Network Ontario, Family violence against women with disabilities
• STOLEN SISTERS - Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns
• Status of women Canada, Assessing Violence Against Women: A Statistical Profile
• Education Wife Assault
• Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centers
• Hot Peach Pages: Canada
• Toronto Rape Crisis Centre
• Vancouver Rape Relief
• Shelternet
• Woman Abuse Council of Toronto
• Battered Women’s Support Services
• Ontario Women’s Justice Network: Abuse Resources for Marginalized Women
• National Clearinghouse on Family Violence: Health Canada
• Project Blue Sky
• Legal Canadian FAQs: National Child Abuse FAQs

Bibliographies

• Books and Cards to Support the Whole Self
• Easy to Read Experiences of Violence
• Self-Help Books on Healing from Violence

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Handouts

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