Starting on United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the campaign ends Dec. 10.
Dozens of people gathered outside the Heritage Building — it was built in 1874 as a teacher’s college — which will remain bathed in purple throughout the campaign to “shine a light on gender-based violence.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“With the exception of a few, there has been nothing but silence from the political leaders, the humanitarians and gender equity initiatives,” Alagheband told the Ottawa crowd. “I am here to call you out on your silence, which has been devastating and numbing.” The same Statistics Canada report said that seven out of 10 female homicide victims last year were killed by spouses, partners or family members: a percentage that has remained consistent during the past decade.
• Inuk Savanna Pikuyak, 22, who came to Ottawa from Nunavut to study nursing, died in a home on Woodvale Green on Sept. 11. A 33-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder;
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