Links for Sources and Further Readings

• Gender, diversity and inclusion statistics (statcan.gc.ca)

• Board of Directors | CMA

• Lack of health data hurting Black Canadian women, U of T researchers find (utoronto.ca)

• Programs at 3 of 17 medical schools in Canada aim for equity for Black students 

• Women in Healthcare: Quick Take

• Canadian doctors of colour offer a frank look at racism in medicine

• 'We need to ensure a cultural shift': U of T's Onye Nnorom on why Canada needs more Black physicians

• Brain Disease in Women - Brainandlife.org

• Women’s brain health initiative

• Rights of women - Canada.ca

• Human Rights Day | United Nations

• Human Rights Day - Canada.ca

• How well are we caring for women? Thinking about gender in evaluating health care | Canadian Women's Health Network (cwhn.ca)

• The woman who put gender-based violence data on the map | Devex

• International Day of People with Disabilities

• Reimagining Care and Healing by Larissa Crawford

• Canadian Disability Hall of Fame

• Women with Disabilities - Stats Canada

• DAWN Canada Report on Women and Girls with Disabilities in Canada

• Women's Brain Health Initiative 

• 2020 Stand Ahead™ Challenge Contest 

• The Einstein Lab - Cognitive Neuroscience, Gender and Health

• “The XX Brain”: What you should know about women's brain health and Alzheimer's  

• World AIDS Day 

• Women who changed science | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

• Read about other women leading the fight to end HIV/AIDS: Women on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS pandemic 

• Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week | CAAN

• Meet Doris Peltier, an advocate for Indigenous women living with HIV

• Can We Eliminate HIV?: HIV in Canada—Surveillance Report, 2016

Day 16

• Human Trafficking in the Pediatric Population in Canada | PedsCases

• Screening for Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department | Faculty of Medicine (utoronto.ca)

• Identifying Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department : BC Emergency Medicine Network (bcemergencynetwork.ca)

• Luring of girls into sex trade reaching 'epidemic' level, police say | CBC News

• Human trafficking services and supports | Ontario.ca

• End Trafficking TO – City of Toronto

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Day 15

• Cyberviolence and Online Hate Against Women | Learn the Facts (canadianwomen.org)

• Cyber-Violence Against Women | BWSS with full report here: CyberVAWReportJessicaWest.pdf (bwss.org)

• Why incels are a 'real and present threat' for Canadians | CBC News

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Day 14

•  Stopping Domestic Violence, a CBC News series looking at the crisis of intimate partner violence in Canada and what can be done to end it

• Women, children turned away from shelters in Canada almost 19,000 times a month | CBC News

• How this P.E.I. program helps women take back control after leaving abusive relationships | CBC News

• 'Barriers' in Canada's legal system complicating fight to end domestic violence | CBC News

• Making the links: Violence, trauma and mental health | Canadian Women's Health Network (cwhn.ca)

• Catherine's Story - Safety Circles for Women in Crisis (justiceoptions.ca)

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Day 13

• Report on Violence Against Women, Mental Health and Substance Use - Canadian Women's Foundation

• Making the links: Violence, trauma and mental health | Canadian Women's Health Network (cwhn.ca)

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Day 12

• Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA)

• The history of the term ‘femicide’ | Femicide in Canada

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Day 11

• The Honourable Maryam Monsef MP

• Gender-based violence and unwanted sexual behaviour in Canada, 2018: Initial findings from the Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces (statcan.gc.ca)

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Day 10

• Violence against female health workers is tip of iceberg of gender power imbalances

• Violence Facing Health CARE Workers In Canada

• Canada's chief medical officers put women's leadership in spotlight

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Day 9 

• The Obstetric Justice Project - Kate MacDonald

• Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto - Sarah Wolfe

• Obstetric violence - General Info

• What is obstetric violence, and could it have happened to you?

• The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States

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Day 8

• Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence & Traumatic Brain Injury: Helping the Helpers by Addressing Gaps in Knowledge & Support : Under “Webinars” - by Dr. Angela Colantonio and Lin Haag

• IPV & TBI

• Domestic Violence-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries in Women

• Mind Over Matter Magazine - By the Women's Brain Health Organization - Volume 10 pages 40-41

• Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence

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Day 7

• Women and HIV in Canada

• HIV/AIDS on rise for Canadian women

• Gender-Based Violence and HIV in Canada - WHAI

• How one Jamaican organization is empowering adolescent girls living with HIV

• Women lead to reduce the impact of HIV and gender-based violence in the Middle East and North Africa

• Rape of individuals with disability: AIDS and the folk belief of virgin cleansing

• Assessing the impact of mass rape on the incidence of HIV in conflict-affected countries

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Day 6

• LGBTQ2+ Youth Priorities for Addressing Gender- Based Violence

• Canada: Discrimination and Violence against Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Women and Gender Diverse and Two Spirit People 

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Queer identified People and Mental Health

• Maps   Maps of anti-LGBT Laws Country by Country

• LGBTQ2+ Youth & Gender-Based Violence Report

• Government of Canada Announces Funding to Support LGBTQ2 Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

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Day 5

• Factsheet on Persons with Disabilities | United Nations Enable

• Intersectionality as a modus operandi for violence against women work

• Fighting for the rights of disAbled women

• Violent victimization of women with disabilities, Canada Statistics

• DAWN-RAFH :: Fact Sheet on Women with Disabilities and Violence

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Day 4

• Black women and sexual violence: visibility and  stigmatization (FR) : (Language: French)

• Q&A: Author Robyn Maynard on Anti-Black Racism, Misogyny, and Policing in Canada

• Roots and Resistance Webinar  is a webinar that will explore in depth conversations about the connections between sexual violence, state violence, and healing from collective and individual sexual abuse and trauma for Black survivors.

• Pioneers long before #MeToo went viral: Intersectionality, Black Women and Sexual Violence (Bilingual) : Webinar by  Kharoll-Ann Souffrant (go to “Webinars”--> “Recordings of Past Sessions”--> “Oct.28”)

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Day 3

•  Shaya MacDonald Webinar: For their “Indigenous Womxn, Gender Equity During a Pandemic” 

• Shaya MacDonald – On the Indian Act, Sex-Based Discrimination and Reconciliation

• Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

• "Indigenous women are preyed on at horrifying rates. I was one of them" by Brandi Morin 

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Day 2

• Helplines for women experiencing violence at home report dramatic increases in calls during COVID-19 pandemic

• A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Pandemics and Violence against Women and Children

• Calls to Canadian domestic violence helplines jump during pandemic

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Day 1

• Why gender-based violence is a public health issue

• Canadian Statistics on violence against women - Canadian Women's Foundation

• Violence against women: an urgent public health priority - Bulletin of the World Health Organization

• Women Heroes of Child Health

• Remembering the Female Clinicians Who Revolutionized Pediatric Cardiology

• National Childs Day

• Women in Diabetes - History

• Diabetes has health effects unique to women

• World Diabetes Day - Nurses make the difference

• Learn more about Lady Montagu

• About "Stop Pneumonia" initiative

• Celebrating 10 women medical pioneers