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Just For Girls About Publications JFG International Media Anti-Poverty Justice Monitoring |
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Updates Sex Offender Martin Tremblay charged in relation to the deaths of Martha Hernandez and Kayla LaLonde JFG Demands Full Review of Youth Forensic Psychiatric Services in BC Sex Offender Martin Tremblay in custody on drug charges. JFG Submission to the Federal Finance Committee for Budget 2011 Youth prison subjects teen girls to breast & gynecological exams during court ordered psych assessments
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Justice for Girls is a non-profit organization that promotes freedom from violence, social justice and equality for teenage girls who live in poverty. Canadian girls face disturbingly high rates of violence. Male violence is a daily reality for homeless young women. On the street young women are subjected to constant verbal, physical and sexual violence. Homeless girls face every kind of physical and verbal assault. Day to day they are touched, poked, prodded, fondled, forcibly kissed, spat on, pelted with objects (such as cigarette butts), grabbed, pushed, punched, and kicked. Girls who are sexually abused through prostitution are most vulnerable to all forms of violence including murder. Men who abuse girls on the street-"johns", passers-by, boyfriends, police, bar patrons- rarely, if ever face consequences for their attacks on homeless teenage girls. As a result of racist child welfare practices and colonial destruction of
Indigenous communities, Indigenous girls make up a large percentage of teenage girls in
poverty including homeless girls. Indigenous girls are subjected to extreme rates of violence and
constitute a shocking number of murder and suicide victims in British Columbia. Justice for Girls has observed that men who commit the most serious sexual violence against multiple teenage girls very often choose Indigenous girls as their targets. We understand these to be hate motivated acts of sexual violence. JFG Demands Police Drop Pimping Justice for Girls advocate,Asia Czapska, visitor at the Liu Institute for Global Studies and Center for Women Studies and Gender Relations at the University of British Columbia Chatelaine Magazine Features Profile on
JFG Co-Founder JFG speaks out about prostitution |
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