Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women - Video transcript
(Black screen spelling out one word at a time: December 6: STATISTICS CANADA COMMEMORATES CANADA'S NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBERANCE AND ACTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)
Thirty-one years ago on this day, 14 young students were murdered at l'école polytechnique de Montréal… just because they were women.
Sadly, gender-based violence is still very much a reality today.
Every day, women all across Canada and the world continue to face targeted violence, and that violence continues as we face the stress of a global pandemic.
2 out of every 5 Canadian women have been victims of at least one act of physical or sexual violence since the age of 15.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and other sexual minority Canadians are more likely to experience violent victimization than heterosexual Canadians.
The homicide rate for Indigenous women is nearly 7 times higher than among non-Indigenous women.
Women with a disability are more than twice as likely to have been sexually assaulted in the past 12 months than women with no disability.
Transgender Canadians are more likely to be violently victimized than cisgender Canadians.
(Text onscreen: Anil Arora, Chief Statistician of Canada)
Unfortunately we still have a long way to go in eliminating gender-based violence in Canada.
Be part of the solution. Question gender norms, speak up against toxic masculinity, and call out gender-based discrimination and violence.
(Text onscreen: Katy Champagne, Champion for Women at Statistics Canada)
Support survivors of violence, and support organizations who are working to end targeted violence, locally, nationally, or worldwide.
Each of us has a role in making Canada a safe place for all of us.
(Black screen spelling each word at a time): WE REMEMBER GENEVIÈVE BERGERON, HÉLÈNE COLGAN, NATHALIE CROTEAU, BARBARA DAIGNEAULT, ANNE-MARIE EDWARD, MAUD HAVIERNICK, MARYSE LAGANIÈRE, MARYSE LECLAIR, ANNE-MARIE LEMAY, SONIA PELLETIER, MICHÈLE RICHARD, ANNIE ST-ARNEAULT, ANNIE TURCOTTE, AND BARBARA KLUCZNIK-WIDAJEWICZ.
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