‘No more femicide’: Vigil held in B.C. to remember 16 women killed in 2024

A vigil was held successful Victoria connected Monday day to retrieve the victims of gender-based violence.

In B.C., 16 women were killed by men successful 2024.

The latest incidental happened implicit the play successful East Vancouver, wherever a 26-year-old pistillate was killed and her hubby is present successful custody.

The Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is calling for accrued payment enactment for women and harsher penalties for those convicted.

The year’s vigil was held astatine the B.C. legislature to request elected officials instrumentality contiguous action.

“So first, women request to person much means to beryllium capable to permission abusive men,” Hilla Kerner, a spokesperson with Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter told Global News.

“Not conscionable modulation houses but funding, economical enactment and different things successful place. But also, we bash cognize that erstwhile women spell to the constabulary and study astir the violence, their complaints are treated earnestly capable to complaint the men, but the men get released with conditions — conditions they cannot keep.”

Vigil participants enactment up a large motion saying “No much femicide” and held signs with the 16 women’s names and ages and the dates of their murders.

However, 4 of the signs lone said “woman” arsenic organizers were not capable to find their names portion reviewing constabulary quality releases and media reports.

“We privation to cognize their names,” Kerner said, “and we privation the BC Coroners Service to behaviour an inquest for each lawsuit of femicide. The nationalist needs to cognize what could person been done to support them truthful we tin request and property for change.”

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On Monday, a study from the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network was released that recovered astir 699 women and 236 accompanying children are turned distant from domestic violence shelters crossed Canada each day.

Due to the precocious outgo of living, women are struggling to permission abusive situations, but that precocious outgo is besides making it harder for shelters to support the lights connected and wage unit accordingly, the study found.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is experiencing gender-based oregon spouse violence, determination is assistance available. A database of phone numbers and resources tin beryllium recovered here.

–With files from Sawyer Bogdan.