Women's Advisory Committee - City of Vancouver

06/05/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/spain-rekindles-a-radical-idea-a-europe-wide-minimum-income

Podemos leader enlists Portugal and Italy to lobby for policy as depression looms for coronavirus-ravaged southern Europe

05/21/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/21/this-pandemic-threatens-to-undo-what-generations-of-feminists-have-fought-for?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

With schools and daycares closed, and employers embracing permanent work-from-home arrangements, women will be forced to pick up the slack

05/14/2020

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/coronavirus-covid-19-local-news/kitchener-council-to-vote-on-universal-basic-income-fcm-proposal-2340200

Kitchener city councillor Bill Ioannidis wants the Ontario government to partner with the federal government to establish a universal basic income

05/11/2020

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/she-was-held-in-that-tent-for-15-hours-screaming-organizations-respond-to-uptick-in-violence-against-women-1.4932936

While women who live in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are particularly vulnerable, organizations across Canada have reported an alarming increase in the number of calls since measures to contain COVID-19 began.

05/10/2020

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/seattle-streets-closed-stay-healthy-trnd/index.html

Seattle residents will have more space to exercise and bike on as the city plans to permanently close 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic, the mayor announced Thursday.

05/06/2020

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-coronavirus-domestic-violence-women-murder-femicide-lockdown-a9488321.html

‘Many more women could die because of violence than Covid in this period,’ says lawyer

05/05/2020

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/pipelines-man-camps-murdered-indigenous-women-canada-200412064302356.html

In Canada, resource extraction is not only endangering the land - but the lives of Indigenous women.

04/25/2020

https://maxpolicy.substack.com/p/issue-21-a-harm-reduction-approach?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4NzA2OTYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozOTI1ODEsIl8iOiJuT3JvdyIsImlhdCI6MTU4NzQ3NjQ5NCwiZXhwIjoxNTg3NDgwMDk0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzQzMDYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.ykrQlU8_oVRL5vO3QFsCmAExJr0iueuCmN4tR1pNvS0&fbclid=IwAR3A-EJqJL4KqLwQ1GG7Wkj9wemsjtrvfY19rc2jwVnXxOfxUNlx7gR21w4

If we're in for months or even years of keeping away from one another, "stay at home" is not an option. We need to rethink how we make use of time and space

04/17/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/15/domestic-abuse-killings-more-than-double-amid-covid-19-lockdown

Pioneering project identifies at least 16 suspected incidences in UK over three-week period

04/11/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/un-coronavirus-pandemic-gender-inequalities-women?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘Limited gains made in the past decades’ toward gender equality ‘are at risk of being rolled back’, UN policy brief said

04/07/2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/827908402/global-lockdowns-resulting-in-horrifying-surge-in-domestic-violence-u-n-warns?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR063NiZRit8e1GMkuUwnBA0cdVLjzAW2ktx_8FnMZHVbg5f5TEExI7tHao

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that reported cases had doubled in some countries "as the economic and social pressures and fear have grown."

04/04/2020