Vigil in Guelph for Montreal massacre anniversary to focus on ‘femicide’
Professor Myrna Dawson of the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences said this would enable police to keep track of data on the number of women who were murdered by men.
“That is what we’re trying to show with our work,” Dawson said in a news release. “That we are missing this information and that impacts the lives of women and girls and the risks they face, some groups of women and girls in particular.” “There are motives that outline the idea that women are possessions, that they are in need of subordination, or are objects,” McMann said. “I think we need a word that captures that motive in order to properly represent what’s happening.”
There have been more reports of gender-based violence in the news in recent weeks, and in the past year, but McMann believes there has been some progress made towards ending it after an inquest in Renfrew, Ont., over the summer of three women who died at the hands of their partner.“It really highlighted a lot of the things that we can do at various levels of government, as individuals, and organizations that can really move the needle on gender-based violence.
Tuesday’s vigil in Guelph will be the second in-person vigil since the pandemic. People attending the event are being advised to wear a mask. The vigil will also be livestreamed on the
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