YWCA Canada’s annual Rose Campaign is a national advocacy campaign dedicated to ending violence against women and girls.
The Rose Campaign was created after 14 young women were murdered on December 6, 1989 at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
In the days leading up to December 6, 2013, YWCA Canada is urging supporters to send a message to their local MP. The message calls for a national action plan on violence against women, beginning with a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women.
Why take action?
- 39 per cent of women report experiencing sexual assault sometime during their lives
- On any given day, over 3,000 women and 2,500 children are staying in an emergency shelter somewhere in Canada to escape family violence
- Every week, at least one woman in Canada is murdered by a current or former partner
- Over 80 per cent of victims of dating violence are female
- Nearly 60 per cent of women with disabilities will experience violence in their lifetime
- Almost 600 Aboriginal women have been murdered or are missing in Canada in unsolved cases
- Violence against women costs Canada well over $4 billion each year in costs of social services, criminal justice, lost employment days and health care
- Women are more likely than men to be the victims of the most severe forms of intimate partner abuse, such as homicide, sexual assault and stalking
Take action today by sending a message to your MP.
