For women experiencing violence or who are not safe at home, you are not alone. Below is an updated list of VAW resources in Hamilton. For additional information please visit wawg.ca and 211ontario.ca. — The AIDS Network The AIDS Network physical location …
WAWG’s statement of outrage over the Ontario Court’s ‘extreme intoxication’ ruling as a legitimate defence for sexual assault was released in the Hamilton Spectator. Read it here: https://www.thespec.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editors/2020/07/29/july-29-appeals-court-extreme-intoxication-sex-assault-ruling-sets-a-dangerous-precedent-and-other-letters.html
The Woman Abuse Working Group (WAWG) is in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. We believe that racism – individual, systemic, and institutional – is beyond unconscionable and must end, but it won’t until we all put the necessary …
The Woman Abuse Working Group (WAWG) is appalled by the Ontario Court of Appeal’s ruling allowing intoxication as a legal defense to sexual assault and supports efforts to appeal ‘extreme intoxication’ defense ruling at the Supreme Court. This ruling sends …
