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Justice for Girls monitors courts, government, media, and academic research for issues that affect girls.
 Prisoner Justice
Court Case Summaries
Police Brutality
Youth Court
Justice for Girls monitors, documents, and responds to human rights abuses within BC youth prisons and holding cells (city and court).
"Out of Control" The Fifth Estate documentary on the imprisonment and death of 19 year old Ashley Smith
The Human Rights of Girls in the BC Criminal Justice System
A memorandum written by Rebecca Aleem of Justice for Girls International.
Shackling of Youth during Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Letter to the Minister of Children & Family Development demands immediate stop to racist policy of shackling youth during the Sacred Sweat Lodge Ceremony.
R v. Ramsay
Justice for Girls called for a sentence in R v. Ramsay that strongly
denounces violence against First Nations girls. Justice for Girls called for a
sentence that would name
hate and prejudice--based on sex, race, and age--as an
aggravating factor in the case against the sexually abusive and sadistic former judge Ramsay
R V. Dezwaan
Violent man on bail for sexual assault with a weapon
murders teenage First Nations girl.
R V. Dunning
BC Court lenient on man who was accused of multiple counts of sexual violence against young women. Dunning was convicted on one count of sexual exploitation and given a minimum sentence.
R V. Kim
Frank Kim was convicted on numerous sexually violent crimes against teenage girls. BC Supreme Court allowed Kim to represent himself at trial, which gave him the oppotunity to continue his abuse of young women through sexually explicit questioning during cross examinations and acts of intimidation in the courtroom.
R. V. Tremblay
December 4, 2003 - Justice for Girls is outraged at
the lenient sentence given to sex offender Martin Tremblay
March 2010 - Martin Tremblay investigated in deaths of two teen girls. see media...
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Justice for Girls gathers information about police brutality and harassment of low income and homeless young women in Vancouver.
Justice for Girls attends Vancouver Youth Court in order to monitor how young women are treated within the youth justice system. We specifically look at issues of equality and access to justice.
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