Sentences with phrase «women fleeing»

This is inadequate to meet the needs of women fleeing violence for their safety.

In the 2001/02 period, 21.6 % of those seeking emergency accommodation were women fleeing domestic violence.

Understanding the recent changes to family law in BC and their impacts on parenting experiences is a critical role for advocates working with women fleeing abuse.

We will introduce our new 90 - page plain language legal handbook for older women fleeing violence, called Roads to Safety, and offer an overview of some of the legal topics it covers:

Family justice not family violence In British Columbia today, many women fleeing abusive relationships are forced to navigate the Read More

The Older Women's Legal Education Project, a collaboration between West Coast LEAF and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law, aims to address a serious gap in existing public legal education resources: information tailored to older women fleeing abuse.

Because violence against women is widespread in many countries that appear stable and democratic, this has a negative affect on women fleeing gender - based violence: CCFR Women's Day 2016.

In April 27, 2017, West Coast LEAF and BCPIAC announced the launch of an historic case against the Province of BC and the Legal Services Society for failing to provide adequate family law legal aid to women fleeing relationship violence.

Inadequate and underfunded services to prevent violence and support survivors, and insufficient affordable housing and shelters accessible to women fleeing abuse, particularly in rural and northern communities, violate the rights of women and girls to live in safety and free from violence.

First, on Tuesday, we were welcomed to the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Centre to present our Parenting and Family Law pilot training to a group of more than 25 professionals who serve women fleeing abusive relationships: counsellors, social workers, advocates, child and youth workers, and more.

This project has two aims: to train seniors - serving professionals on the specific needs of older women fleeing violence, and to inform older women of their rights in situations of abuse through a plain - language handbook containing practical legal information, called Roads to Safety, and a multilingual wallet - sized resource.

Learn more about our efforts to provide public legal education on the issues most relevant to older women fleeing abuse!

«Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight,» an angry Greenpeace official declared, «with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport.»

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He admits immigration rules can prevent women fleeing abusive relationships.

Volunteers at the organisations say young mums, women fleeing domestic violence, families affected by welfare cuts, and asylum seekers are the typical people who need help.

But Mark offers us none of these, choosing instead to end his story with frightened women fleeing from a cemetery in silence: That's no way to run a resurrection.

«The inaccessibility of the legal system results in women staying in situations that are unhealthy and sometimes dangerous, while women fleeing abuse without legal help are often re-victimized by their abuser and by the court system.»

The wilderness theme was also linked to the millenial imagery in an important passage of Revelation 12:6: «and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.»

(2) «And the woman fled to the desert, where she has a place there, prepared by God» (12:6).

In ten years over 20,000 men and women fled from England to their Puritan colony.

And the image of the woman fleeing the dragon in Revelation 12, popular in the New England imagination since the Puritans» own flight, gave an apocalyptic intensity to the sermons of Samuel Sherwood.

What happens to the woman fleeing the crime of forced marriage, if the specialist refuge that understood her specific needs is closed down?

Economically hard transitional period of the country's economy made Russian women flee small poverty - stricken Russian towns.

For instance, there are 558 images of the 2000 Elian Gonzalez incident, which started when a woman fled Cuba with her young son for Florida.

In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart - pounding step ahead of the law.

The story begins when Azalea is struck by an especially forceful vision of a young woman fleeing from a unseen pursuer when she picks up a broken key deep underground.

Whether I am working with a young woman fleeing persecution or defending a hardworking father from deportation after establishing a life here for decades, being able to humanise the facts and create a sense of moral imperative is crucial.

Patient 27: A woman fled her country despite the fact that she was 33 weeks pregnant in order to save her 13 year old daughter from female genital mutilation.

The couple had been married for twenty years when the woman fled to a women's shelter with the children.

Whether it's a family seeking parenting support, a woman fleeing domestic violence, or a senior with dementia seeking support for mental and physical health, we provide services to individuals and families in need

Not exact matches

At the age of 14, in 1950, his mother fled North Korea on foot, walked through live combat, reached the United States and proceeded to become, reportedly, the first Korean woman ever to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.

Yes to a decent refugee policy that provides a home for desperate men, women and children fleeing war: immigrants and refugees helped to build this country, and will continue to do so.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

It has become a classic terror strategy, ensuring that women either do as they are told or flee when they come under attack.

A woman named Rashida wrote a post for Al Jazeera describing her experience fleeing the government.

They are extremely vulnerable families, women and children who are fleeing for their lives.

When ISIS snipers shot at women and children as they tried to flee Fallujah, after holding the city hostage, those fleeing were Sunni Muslims.

Perhaps this is why the women stayed by Jesus» side after so many of the Twelve betrayed him, denied him, and fled from him in fear.

It seems quite likely that Mark's gospel originally ended at chapter 16, verse 8, with the words, «Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb.

The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

Today virtually every city in America has a shelter where battered women can go to flee their husbands.

The woman was interpreted to be God's true Church which would have to flee to a prepared place in the wilderness just before the end of times.

She and other women are present at the cross, when the male disciples flee.

The women can not take it in, and there is a sense of incompleteness as the tale breaks off with them fleeing.

In Revelation 12:6 the woman who had borne a male child that would rule all nations fled into the wilderness and was nourished there for 1,260 days.

The Romantic Juan actually loved women, or at least loved «woman» as an ideal, and in despair of finding the ideal embodied fled from one woman to another.

Translating this from the Hebrew is a little tricky, so some of you probably have different translations, but what David is saying is that he and his men fled three days ago, and during that time, have kept themselves from women.

«Man, who is born of woman, has few days, yet enough of pain, like the flowers he grows and withers, he flees away like the shadows and abides not.»

Just a couple months ago there was an article on here about a woman who fled Iran after getting threats because she spoke out.