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Canada’s gender-based violence laws are improving. Frontline worker conditions are not
['Lynda Powless']
The Turtle Island News
By Alice Mũrage and, Julia Smith The Conversation When it comes to gender-based violence (GBV) Canada has made legal and policy strides over the past decades, and indeed the past few years.
Once viewed as a domestic matter, GBV is increasingly recognized as a public safety, public health and human rights issue.
In 2022, for example, the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence provided a shared framework to guide a co-ordinated national response with provinces and territories.
Coercive control is now receiving greater legal recognition through the introduction of a new tort on intimate partner violence by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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