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Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter is Canada's longest running rape crisis center. [1] The shelter, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, was established in 1973 and has operated a feminist transition house since 1983, offering women shelter from men who are abusing them, including fathers, husbands, sons, pimps, johns and landlords.
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.
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]
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.
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It aims to end violence against women, move low-income women out of poverty, and empower girls. The Canadian Women's Foundation is the only national women's foundation in Canada. [1] Since 1991, it has invested over $40 million in charitable support to over 1,200 community programs and women's shelters across Canada. [2]