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The shelter has a total annual budget of around $1.1 million per year, of which approximately $600,000 is funded by the government of British Columbia. [7]In March 2019, the Vancouver City Council announced that it would stop awarding an annual $34,312 grant to the organisation and would not award future funding unless the organisation extended accommodations to transgender women. [8]
The first women's shelter in the modern world was Haven House, which opened in 1964 in California. [53] An early women's shelter in the United States, Emergency Shelter Program Inc. (now Ruby's Place inc.), was established in Hayward, California, in 1972 by a local group of women who attended church together.
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Kimberly Nixon is a transgender woman who filed a human rights complaint against Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter Society (VRRS) for discrimination.VRRS argued that Nixon, a transgender woman, did not have the same life experiences as someone who is female and, therefore, could not volunteer as a peer rape counsellor. [1]
Lakshmi (Hindi pronunciation: [lək.ʂmiː]) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language biographical social problem film written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor.It stars Monali Thakur as the title character alongside Shefali Shah, Ram Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, and Kukunoor.
Bhakshak (transl. Devourer) is a 2024 Indian Hindi language crime thriller film based on the Muzaffarpur shelter case. [2] It is directed by Pulkit and produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma under banner Red Chillies Entertainment, [3] the film stars Bhumi Pednekar, Sanjay Mishra, Aditya Srivastava and Sai Tamhankar.
Zinda (English: Alive) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language action film written and directed by Sanjay Gupta, who co-wrote the film with Suresh Nair. [2] [3] It stars Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham, Lara Dutta and Celina Jaitly. [4] Vishal–Shekhar composed the film's thematic music, while the background score was composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury.
Following complaints from transgender activists, the Vancouver City Council pulled future funding from the organization in March 2019 and ruled that it would only be restored if Vancouver Rape Relief extends all of its services, including housing in its women's crisis shelter, to transgender women.