The St. John’s Status of Women Council (SJSWC) / Women’s Centre is a leading community organization on the issue of gender-based violence (GBV) and how it impacts people in our community. We are excited to be developing an online training program about GBV titled Empowering Them. We are inviting qualified businesses and individual contractors to submit […]

Covid-19 is a gendered crisis. All of our recovery plans, especially economic ones, must be feminist.   PERT letter to Premier Furey   Media Contact: Laura Winters | Executive Director St. John’s Status of Women Council/Women’s Centre P: 709.765.4434 E: laura@sjwomenscentre.ca

After three years, the St. John’s Status of Women Council has launched the DV@WorkNL project research and findings. Our DV@WorkNL research explores the ways Domestic Violence that happens in the home also impacts the workplace and workers. The results speak to both the impacts of Domestic Violence on workplaces as well as the issue of […]

“SHOP and the RNC are fundamentally at odds on how to support people in the sex trade” The Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP) and the St. John’s Status of Women Council have made the decision to end our official SHOP Liaison Officer partnership with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, our local police service. SHOP is committed […]

Reviewing a legacy of harm, the justice gap, and recommendations for advocates and allies. In light of the recent Snelgrove mistrial here in St. John’s and the subsequent grassroots activism in support of Jane Doe, survivors and allies have once again directed our focus to the ways the criminal justice system perpetually fail survivors of […]

We reached out to all eight candidates running in our upcoming Ward 2 by-election with St. John’s City Council. We asked them eight questions about issues impacting women and marginalized people in our community, and their perspective on how feminism can inform municipal politics. Below is the full series of questions and answers from Ward […]

When gender-based violence happens in our communities, we all feel it. As women and as people supporting women in our community, we know that the impacts of violence are as pervasive and widespread as the rates of violence occurring. This week alone, we have seen four new cases of sexual assault happen St. John’s. This […]

The Transformative Power of Women’s Words September 29 2020 St. John’s, NL – The St. John’s Status of Women Council (SJSWC) is thrilled to announce the launch of our Dear Survivor campaign inspired by the connections that real women make when they talk to each other about intimate partner abuse. Empowering Ourselves: Exploring Intimate Partner Abuse is an eight-week Women’s Centre support group […]

We are hiring for an exciting new position to support the work of the St. John’s Status of Women Council. The role is to provide support around organizational advocacy, fund development, as well as ongoing analysis, information and solution-based recommendations for gender-equitable policy and practice in St. John’s and across Newfoundland and Labrador. Using a feminist, intersectional, […]