Anti-violence groups in Thunder Bay are calling on city council to declare gender-based violence an epidemic in the city.
Posted: Aug 19, 2023 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
"It doesn't cost anybody any money," she said. "But we also know that the World Health Organization, during COVID, declared violence against women as [a] shadow pandemic because it was occurring in such large numbers."A media release issued by the Women's Centre, Beendigen, and TBDCCEWA states that in 2022, Thunder Bay police reported 2,300 incidents of intimate partner violence, with 703 charges against 267 individuals.
"There isn't a lot of accountability for perpetrators. There are few options for women to escape. And the violence doesn't end when women leave, it often gets worse." O'Reilly said an inquest following the 2015 murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Nathalie Warmerdam — all of whom were killed by a man they each had a past relationship with — led to 86 recommendations to help stop intimate partner violence.
"Especially what we see in our work is this need for a universal information system and a high level of acknowledgement and systemic advocacy and collaboration and communication among agencies who respond to this," O'Reilly said.
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