- Afghan Young Women Protest Killing Women
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read 'where is justice?', take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country.
- Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
Resource Type: Book
- Anti-abortion violence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion.
- Apartheid's Violence Against Children
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
This text is the General Working Document of the International Conference on Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa, held in Harare, 24-27 September 1987. It shows how apartheid affects the lives of black children in South Africa and the violent means by which the apartheid regime attacks them when they seek to change the conditions under which they live and to join the struggle for liberation.
- Battered Women: How to Use the Law
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
As stated in the introduction, "This pamphlet gives information on what to do when you are being threatened or beat up by your husband or boyfriend."
- Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
- Building a Solidarity City
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
- Call Me Kuchu
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists (CAPCT)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Federation of University Women
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Women's Health Network
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Chronicle of a death online: Hate campaign from Muslim fundamentalist groups from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and West Asia against a Muslim woman writer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The case of Tamil Nadu journalist who was victim of online 'rape' and 'murder', perpetuated by Muslim fundamentalists.
- Close to a Thousand Nigerian Girls Freed, Many Malnourished or Pregnant
Resource Type: Article
Thousands of Nigerian former hostages are liberated, a large number of them were malnourished or pregnant.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Covenant House
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
- Daughters of India Violated and Abused
A Woman's Lot
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
- Domestic violence was an issue with no name
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
In the 1960s and ’70s, domestic violence was an issue with no name.
Countless women endured violence in their own homes, but it was not acknowledged as an issue in the public realm. It was a shameful secret, quietly accepted as a part of life for women. When a woman was abused, there was nowhere to go. A woman’s place was in the home, even if home could kill her. Against this grim backdrop, different groups of women across the country worked to open Canada’s first women’s shelters.
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
- Family Service Toronto
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Female Well-Being
Toward a global theory of social change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Feminist Resistance in Serbia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
- Force-Feeding a Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1915
A description of the brutal force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in England.
- Global campaign aims to end violence against women journalists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launches a global campaign to bring attention to the issue of violence against women journalists, and to call for an end to impunity for these crimes.
- Global report launched on violence and harassment against women in the news media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The core findings of a joint report on violence and harassment against women in the news media by INSI and the International Women's Media Foundtaion (IWMF).
- Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
- Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
- Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as 'a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.' Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
- Half the Sky
Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Describes the health and situation of women worldwide by investigating issues such as rampant gendercide in the developing world and gender discrimation in the labour force. The authors aim to bring attention to the plight of women in developing countries.
- Headscarves and Hymens
Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
- Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
- Healing Images
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
A month-long art exhibition/symposium to be held in Toronto from November 9 to December 19, 1990.
- Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
- 'Honour' case father jailed for life for Tulay murder
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A father has been jailed for life to serve a minimum tariff of 22 years for murdering his daughter, 15, in a so-called honour killing.
- The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa Parvez
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
- How Canada's first women’s shelter saved women and their children from abuse
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
- How To Make India Safer For Women
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
What’s to be done to make India, a country where women are veneered in the temple and beaten at home, safer for women?
- Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
- "If I Had Only Known" - Abuse Project Engages Newcomer Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Family Service Toronto has chosen the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (March 8, 2011) to launch a series of publications for its If I Had Only Known project - a groundbreaking initiative that engages newcomer communities in the develop
- IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
- IFJ Condemns Strip Humiliation of Women Journalists in Sierra Leone
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists strongly condemns the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four women journalists who were stripped naked in public in Sierra Leone while covering events against female circumcision.
- IFJ Marks on 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has marked 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which this year is focused on workplace violence in the media sector.
- In Remembrance of Things Lost
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
It’s astonishing that I actually have to make an argument (and a losing one at that) against murdering children, but this is the reality we ourselves have given birth to.
- India is taking acid attacks more seriously
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Women campaign for courts and public to take notice of impact of devastating assaults.
- IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
- ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as Cattle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a downturn in their market.
- Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbi
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
“New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
- Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
- Learning to Love Patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
- Legal Process for Battered Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
- One in five Israelis lives in poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
With just over 8 million people, Israel has over 1.7 million, more than 20 percent of the population, living below the poverty line, according to the latest report issued by the National Insurance Institute (NII) and the Central Bureau of Statistics. Issued in December, the figures relate to 2012 and will have worsened since then.
- One Woman Is Behind the Most Up-to-Date Interactive Map of Femicides in Mexico
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The interactive 'Femicides in Mexico Map' is a "citizen-led, civic, independent initiative based on open data which, using geographical coordinates, has been mapping cases of femicide since 2016.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
- Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud Sioux community. Four police officers decided that this young girl who had a small paring knife was "a danger to herself," requiring them to taser her.
- Post-traumatic stress and the children of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
The situation in Gaza is devastating. We have to act to protect the children of Gaza.
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Reporting Gender Based Violence
A Handbook for Journalists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
- Saving Face
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid -- the majority women. Many more go unreported. This documentary Saving Face is the story of two survivors of such attacks — their battle for justice and their journey of healing. Saving Face follows their personal stories and that of the nation of Pakistan as it attempts to tackle this vexing social problem.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Few cases of sexual assault against journalists have ever been documented, a product of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. But now dozens of journalists are coming forward to say they have been sexually abused in the course of their work.
- 6-year-old begs for help during arrest at Florida school: video
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2020
- The Social Organization of Family Violence
An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
This study examines the social organization of wife battering among immigrant families in Vancouver. The focus is immigrant women's experience of being battered, and how this experience is located within the Canadian social and economic context.
- Sources welcomes Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is a Canadian-based institution dedicated to making international peace operations more effective through research, education and training, and capacity development.
- Still ain't satisfied
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Stones Aimed at Us
An Overview of the Discourse and Strategies of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
This report provides an overview of the discourses around stoning in Iran, and the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign.
- Stoning in Muslim Contexts: A Mapping Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
This report locates where the punishment of stoning still exists, either through judicial or extrajudicial methods.
- Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
- Ten Thousand Roses
The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
- Threatening email orders Bangladeshi media to fire women
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the threats against news media and bloggers contained in a email that was sent to a score of Bangladeshi print and broadcast media outlets on 19 October, and calls on the authorities to take concrete measures
- Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut them down. It targets them physically and psychologically.
- Toxic Parents
Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- UN Council: Israel Intentionally Shot Children and Journalists in Gaza
Officials say killings are part of Israel's 'obligation'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A short piece on the UN Human Rights Council report on Israel's firing on unarmed protesters.
- The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
- Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
- Violence Today
Actually Existing Barbarism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today's actually-existing barbarism.
- The War on Women--And Us All
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The war on women’s reproductive rights is being fought in the U.S. Congress, in state legislatures and in the courts, and played out in the media. This war seeks to restrict women’s ability to control their reproductive lives — with each law more outrageous than the last — under the excuse that they are “protecting the unborn.”
- Who Cares?
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
- Wife Assault: The Silent Crime
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
- Working with Assaulted Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
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