The LCCEWA launched their 2023 Snapshot this month via social media. The Southwest Region VAW Coordinating Committee (SWRCC) developed Snapshot in 2018 to help educate and engage the public and politicians in their home communities. Violence against women is not an isolated or individual problem. It is a complex social issue that impacts all citizens, and often for generations. Snapshot paints a bigger picture with statistics and stories of what is happening as a direct result of overlapping social and economic inequities.
In Ontario last year, 62 women and girls were killed by men who claimed to care for them. Every year we honour those who have lost their lives to femicide, and their families who are left mourning their loved ones.
On July 25th, 2023, the City of London officially declared intimate partner violence and femicide an epidemic. Lanark was the first municipality in Ontario to declare that killing women and girls is an epidemic. Currently there are 94 communities across the province that have followed suit. This follows from the June 28th, 2022, jury recommendations from the Renfrew Inquest into the deaths of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam. Formally declaring intimate partner violence as an epidemic is only the first of the 86 recommendations.
Download the 2023 Snapshot here.
