Advocacy Resources
Key Articles
Useful Links
Legal Links
Government Officials

Advocacy Resources

Sample letter to Minister of Children & Family Development demading an immediate stop to breast and gynecological exams during court-ordered psychiatric assessment of incarcerated teenage girls

Rights of girls who are victims of violence prepared by Justice for Girls and Brianne Nowicki

Girls' Rights Card prepared by Justice for Girls and Pivot Legal Society

Shackling of Girls: Laws & Policies prepared by Justice for Girls and Sara Jaremko

Rights of Incarcerated Girls in BC Facts Sheet prepared by Justice for Girls    

Safe Streets Act Brochure prepared by BC Public Interest Advocacy Center      

Key Articles

"She Is Hostile to Our Ways": First Nations Girls Sentenced to the Ontario Training School for Girls, 1933–1960 by Joan Sangster

The risky business of risk assessment by Kim Pate of the Canadian Elizabeth Fry Society

Why do we think young women are committing more violent offences? by Kim Pate of the Canadian Elizabeth Fry Society

Useful Links

Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies - a critical site about women and girl prisoners' rights, including the CAEFS Human Rights Tribunal complaint against Canadian women's prisons.

End Canadian Poverty - a website created to highlight charities and organizations which have been helping Canadians to overcome poverty

National Youth in Care Network- a great site by and for youth in care

Native Women's Association of Canada - a national organization founded on the collective goal to enhance, promote, and foster social, economic, cultural and political well-being of First Nations and Metis women within the First Nation and Canadian societies

Pivot Legal Society- an organization working for the rights of victims of police brutality

PovNet - local Vancouver poverty activism organization with national links to anti-poverty organizations and advocates

Redwire Magazine - a great magazine by and for Indigenous youth

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter - very useful site with information about violence against women and women's rights

Legal Links

Department of Justice Canada

Supreme Court of Canada - link to website with Supreme Court of Canada decisions

BC Superior Courts - information about the superior court and decisions of the BC Supreme Court and BC Court of Appeal

BC Statutes - listing of British Columbia laws and regulations

Canlii - very useful link to provincial, territorial and federal law databases, and higher courts

Government Officials

Vancouver City Council Members Directory- full listing of Vancouver city council members

British Columbia Provincial Members of Legislature - full listing of BC MLAs

Federal Government Members of Parliament - full listing of federal Canadian MPs