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 WomenAware/ FemmesAverties 

            

 WomenAware is a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 by survivors of domestic abuse.
 

‘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.”