2022-10 DOMESTIC /INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (D/IPV)
WHEREAS #1: Domestic violence refers to a range of violations that happens within a domestic space and encompasses intimate partner violence (IPV), a broad term of abuse that is perpetuated by a current or ex-partner and may include physical, sexual, psychological, financial, and/or emotional abuse, control, and manipulation, and
WHEREAS #2: Public Health restrictions due to COVID-19 have caused unintended negative consequences and multiple new stresses including social pressures, substance abuse, economic vulnerability, job losses, isolation and loneliness, physical and psychological health risks, confinement to space, and in the case of domestic violence, contact with the perpetrator over long periods of time, and
WHEREAS #3: In this environment, women and their children are particularly vulnerable to abuse and disproportionately affected by domestic violence, supporting the view that home can be a place where dynamics of power may be readily distorted and subverted, and that children who come from families with a history of IPV are at a higher risk of replicating or falling victim to those behaviours in adulthood, and
WHEREAS #4: COVID-19 has increased and intensified both the reported rate and the severity of IPV in Canada and around the world, raising concerns about the long-term impacts of physical injury and traumatic brain injuries, a recognized consequence of IPV, therefore be it
RESOLVED #1: that the National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC) adopt as policy that Domestic /Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) be recognized as the “shadow pandemic” requiring attention, services, and adequate tools to protect and support victims to address the problem and to mitigate the long term affects of IPV, and be it further
RESOLVED #2: that NCWC urge the Government of Canada to recognize Domestic /IPV as the “shadow pandemic” and collaborate with its Provincial and Territorial Governments to ensure that support services and adequate tools are available to victims, service providers, and community resources to address the problem and to mitigate the long term affects of IPV, and further be it
RESOLVED #3: that NCWC urge their Provincial Councils to advocate with their respective Provincial and Territorial Governments to ensure that support services and adequate tools are available to victims, service providers, and community resources to address the problem and mitigate the long term affects of IPV.