Centering Equity for Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: The Impact of Structural Racism & the Criminal Legal Response
CGSHE Speaker Series presents Drs. Decker and Holliday, who will discuss the influence of structural racism and gender discrimination on safety and response strategies among intimate partner survivors with a focus on historical contexts of abuse, survivors’ engagement with and preferences for justice systems, and the role of housing in achieving survivor safety and stability.
New CGSHE research exposes serious inequities in BC’s health care system that endanger im/migrant women, children
The BC Federation of Labour has endorsed a petition launched by the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity to end British Columbia’s mandatory three-month wait period for health coverage for new residents to the province. The petition, which calls on the BC Medical Services Commission to permanently eliminate the “wait period” policy, is based on new research by CGSHE’s IRIS Project and Sanctuary Health that shows the policy disproportionately harms racialized im/migrant women and their families. The findings expose serious inequities in Canada’s health care system that endanger the health and wellbeing of im/migrant women in BC.
BC’s three-month wait period for health care violates the spirit of the Canada Health Act
Exclusion from health coverage harms im/migrant women and families: Study FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 British Columbia’s mandatory three-month wait period for health coverage for new residents to the province has a disproportionate and debilitating impact on racialized im/migrant women, according to a new study by researchers at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Open, draws on interviews with women who were im/migrants to British Columbia, as well as service providers employed in the health, social or legal sectors with im/migrant women. The findings expose serious inequities in Canada’s health care system that endanger the health and wellbeing of im/migrant women in BC. “Mandatory wait periods for health coverage add to inequity and stigma, and increase negative health and…
Sexual Health & Sustainable Development Goals: Leaving No One Behind in the Global Health Agenda
Sexual rights and sexual pleasure are missing from the Sustainable Development Goals’ focus on sexual and reproductive health. Why does this matter, and who does it matter for? CGSHE faculty member Dr. Carmen Logie explores how these missing discourses can perpetuate sexual health inequities toward sexually and gender diverse persons, and sex workers, in diverse global contexts.