Welcome
Welcome – We are currently updating our website and we thank you for your patience – December 2011
Bienvenue – Notre site web est actuellement en développement. Nous vous remercions pour votre compréhension – decembre 2011
WomenAware/ FemmesAverties
Wishing a Happy and Peaceful Holiday to all!
Nous vous souhaitons un temps des fêtes rempli de bonheur, de douceur et de sérénité!
WomenAware is a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 by survivors of domestic abuse and whose mission is to support those going through same.
It is indeed the voices of survivors, their struggles and experiences, which guide our work and give meaning to our mission.
Excerpt from the book “The War on Women” by Canadian Writer, Editor, Producer and Director Brian Vallée
“The War on Women has run longer than all of the conflicts of the last two centuries combined, including the Cold War. Only in the past 25 years has there been any significant movement to end the conflict.
In Canada, the federal government estimates the annual cost of violence against women at $1.1 billion in direct medical costs alone. That figure rises to more than $4 billion a year when social services, lost productivity, lost earnings, and police, court, and prison costs are factored in.
Wars usually produce large numbers of refugees: witness the United Nations camps scattered around the world. And the War on Women has its own refugee camps, in the form of the 2,500 or so shelters for battered women and their children across North America.
Stephen Lewis in his foreword for “The War on Women”, describes the worldwide problem of domestic violence as “its own holocaust” and Vallée says “when you look at the numbers, calling it a ‘war’ on women is accurate and legitimate.”
