[Viva] Another Int. Women's Day event!

[Margarite Sanchez]

From: Angela Marie MacDougall [director at bwss.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 9:34 AM
To: Angela Marie MacDougall
Subject: Women Seeking Justice - International Women's Day 2015

Dear Colleague,

Please accept this invitation to attend what, we believe will be, a
remarkable justice event commemorating International Women’s Day 2015.  For
more information or to RSVP please email endingviolence at bwss.org<mailto:
endingviolence at bwss.org>.

International Women’s Day 2015

Battered Women’s Support Services Legal Advocacy Program Presents:
Women Seeking Justice

Women Seeking Justice Forum convenes a former judge, researchers,
academics, lawyers, legal advocates, and feminist thinkers to illuminate
pressing legal issues for women in law practice and policy including
Indigenous, international, immigration, refugee, criminal, family, and
poverty.

Confirmed Presenters

MC Niki Sharma - BWSS Board Member and Lawyer

Opening and Territorial Welcome - Audrey Siegl, Musqueam Nation

Legal Advocacy and Violence Against Women

Vicky Law, BWSS Legal Advocate

Multiple Proceedings and Intimate Partner Violence: A Dangerous Disconnect

Justice Donna Martinson

Aboriginal Women and Girls on the International Agenda

Sharon McIvor, Nlekepmux, from the Lower Nicola Indian Band, Activist,
Lawyer, College Professor.

Preliminary Findings from a BC Study of RCMP cases of Intimate Partner
Violence:  Does Gender Symmetry Exist?

Dr. Margaret Jackson, Professor Emerita, School of Criminology and,
Director, the FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and
Children at SFU

Toward a Sanctuary City:  Reflections from Lucia Jimenez Coroner’s Inquest

Rosa Elena Arteaga, Manager, Direct Services and Clinical Practice,
Battered Women’s Support Services

Conditional Permanent Residence: The Dangers of Making Immigration Status
Conditional on Living with your Spouse
Lobat Sadrehashemi, Staff Lawyer at BC Public Interest Advocacy Office
Women and Homelessness: Challenging Apathy in Policy and Practice
Angela Marie MacDougall, Executive Director, Battered Women’s Support
Services
Violence Against Women and the Family Law Act: Early Jurisprudence

Susan Boyd, Professor of Law and Chair in Feminist Legal Studies,
University of British Columbia

When:              Friday, March 6, 2015
9 am to 1 pm
Where:             SFU Harbour Centre
#1700-Labatt Hall, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Coast Salish
Territory
Refreshments will be provided
Webcast will be available
RSVP for the event or webcast by emailing endingviolence at bwss.org<mailto:
endingviolence at bwss.org>
Many thanks to our sponsors:
Central City Foundation, The Law Foundation of BC and My Sister’s
Closet-Social Enterprise of Battered Women’s Support Services
Yours truly,
Angela


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