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2005 Purple Ribbon Campaign Against Violence

From April 2004 to March 2005 a total of 1,986 women used support services across PEI.

Purple Ribbon
  Number of Women Number of Children and Youth Number of Calls for Service or Info
Anderson House (Island-wide) 326 263 3,594
Queen's County Outreach 481 440 1,941
East Prince Family Violence Prevention, Inc 456 85 4,439
Family Violence Prevention Eastern PEI 336 241 2,136
West Prince Family Violence Prevention Co-operative 387 266 3,837


16 years ago...

On December 6, 1989, fourteen women were murdered at L’École Polytechnique in Montreal. They were murdered because they were women.

Statistics Canada indicates that 51% of Island women have experienced violence.

First mourn, then work for change!

Many Island volunteers pinned ribbons to over 30,000 information cards. Please wear this purple ribbon on and around December 6 to commemorate the 15th Annual National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. If you can, please make a donation in your community to an organization actively working to end violence against women and children.

Violence Against Women Has No Age Limit

Family violence is a fact in many older women’s lives...

Nearly a third (30%) of homicides in Canada from 1978 to 1997 in which the victim was a woman aged 65 or older were committed by a spouse or former spouse of the victim. Other perpetrators include sons (15%), daughters (3%), and other family members (10%). Statistics Canada

Abuse of women in later years may

  • be a continuation of long-term partner abuse

  • begin with retirement

  • begin with the onset of a health condition

  • occur in a new intimate relationship

  • be committed by adult children or grandchildren

Older women may experience a variety of abuses including

  • psychological abuse in the form of harassment, verbal aggression, intimidation, insults, threats, humiliation, hurting her pets, and various ways of enforcing isolation

  • financial abuse including taking her money or withholding money for food and other basic essentials

  • physical abuse in the form of hitting, pushing, grabbing, kicking, or choking

  • neglect (especially if she has mobility or other significant health problems

If you are being physically, emotionally, verbally, sexually, or financially abused, call Anderson House at 892-0960 or toll free at 1-800-240-9894.

The PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women gratefully acknowledges financial project support from the City of Charlottetown and the Premier’s Action Committee on Family Violence Prevention. The Premier’s Action Committee asks you to keep this ribbon and wear it during Family Violence Prevention Week, February 12-18, 2006.

For more information please visit the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women website and The 2005 Purple Ribbon Campaign factsheet.

 

 

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