Awareness & Facts (Gender Based Violence)

The statistics are stark:

• More than 4 in 10 women in Canada have experienced some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime (Statistics Canada, 2021).
• In Northern Ontario, girls and young women face violent crime at rates four times higher than the national average, with violence more likely to be severe and result in physical injury.
• Over six in ten Indigenous women have been physically or sexually assaulted since the age of 15, compared with just over four in ten non-Indigenous women (Statistics Canada, 2021).
• Police-reported intimate partner violence is 75% higher in rural communities than in urban areas.
• The vast majority of gender-based violence in Canada is not reported to the police:
  • Only 6% of sexual assault incidents were reported to the police, making it the most underreported violence crime. (Adam Cotter, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Stats Can 2019)
  • 80% of people who had experienced gender-based violence did not report it to the police. (Conroy, S. 2021 Family Violence in Canada: A statistical profile 2019)
• 59% of transgender and gender diverse people experience violence victimization.  (Stats Can 2020)