by SWOVA Team | Dec 5, 2020 | Events, Sexual safety, Uncategorized
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women We invite everyone to attend a Candlelight Vigil Centennial Park Wednesday, December 6th, 2020 **4:30-5:00pm** To honour and remember all women who have been killed by violence. We will meet...
by SWOVA Team | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
During the month of May in 2020, a community wide survey was launched throughout the Southern Gulf Islands on Consent and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. The survey was funded by the Status of Women Canada as part of an on-going project spear headed by Salt...
by SWOVA Team | Oct 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
We often hear talk of a world of war, of destruction of poverty, of violence, of famine, of racism, of sexism, or other ‘isms population explosion, resource depletion a world where animals are dying and not coming back of environmental depletion, of starvation,...
by SWOVA Team | Sep 16, 2020 | From the Headlines
Consent is a big topic in the news these days. What constitutes consent to sexual activity? When and how is consent given? How do we misinterpret consent? These are some of the topics in the news and on many peoples’ minds. This is particularly true for...
by SWOVA Team | Aug 26, 2020 | From the Headlines
There is a lot of violence in our world and it takes many forms- men’s violence towards other men, violence perpetrated on children, violence directed at seniors, violence against lesbian, gay and transgendered people, and violence against women, to name some of the...