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Violence Against Women: An Exploration Of The Physical And Mental Health Trends among Immigrant And Refugee Women In Canada

Sepali Guruge, Brenda Roche and Cristina Catallo |

The Wellesley Institute’s Brenda Roche co-authored Violence Against Women: An Exploration of the Physical and Mental Health Trends among Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada, published under an open access Creative Commons Attribution License. Violence against women is a serious health and social problem for women worldwide. Research has looked broadly at the physical and mental […]

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.