OTTAWA —
Freshly appointed Girls and Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien says as a part of her effort to fight gender-based violence she intends to position a lens on males to know why it occurs within the first place.
She says the difficulty is amongst her priorities for the division as a result of it’s “clearly unacceptable,” and he or she needs to not solely assist girls however concentrate on males to determine the foundation causes of the issue.
The minister says her division will proceed to conduct analysis on gender-based violence in order that they perceive the difficulty, establish gaps and discover areas of enchancment.
Gender equality advocates have been sounding the alarm on an increase in gender-based violence throughout the pandemic, a development which the United Nations has known as a “shadow pandemic.”
Advocates have additionally been calling for the federal authorities to place in place secure funding for applications that work to finish gender-based violence.
Whereas the federal government has put aside funding to create a nationwide motion plan to forestall and tackle gender-based violence, an in depth plan has but to be made public.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Nov. 4, 2021.
