April 1, 2025
A Joint Statement From The Toronto GBV/IPV Working Group On The Elimination Of The Minister For Women And Gender Equality Canada. Women’s rights and safety are non-negotiable. As professionals working […]
March 25, 2025
PRESS RELEASE: TORONTO, ON – On Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, a federal snap election was officially called, with Canadians set to go to the polls on April 28, 2025. Since the […]
March 10, 2025
TORONTO, ON – At WomanACT, we train community, corporate, and government partners on the challenges women and gender-diverse people face in the workplace. A key part of this involves helping participants […]
November 25, 2024
TORONTO, ON – WomanACT stands with community advocates to call for the Ontario government to take decisive action by passing Bill 173, formally declaring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) an epidemic. As the global 16 Days […]
July 3, 2024
Eden Hoffer is a PhD student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. Her doctoral research focuses on how mothers who are intimate partner violence victim-survivors are re-victimized and/or […]
April 16, 2024
In Canada, the gender pension gap is a growing factor of senior poverty that disproportionately affects older women and reduces their well-being, in terms of health and economics. The impact […]
January 16, 2024
WomanACT’s 2024 Pre-Budget Submission Violence against women is not only a human rights violation but has devastating physical, emotional, social and economic consequences for women. Housing, homelessness, and intimate partner […]
September 27, 2023
As the nation prepares to observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we emphasize the critical importance of this day in shedding light on the heartbreaking issue of missing […]
July 7, 2023
WomanACT’s submission for the National Housing Council’s Review Panel on the Financialization of Purpose-Built Rental Housing. Financialization is a growing trend toward the use of housing as an investment to […]
June 15, 2023
Older women are disproportionately affected by violence. Older women are victims in 58% of family violence cases in Canada[i] and are twice as likely to be victims of intimate partner […]