{"id":7037,"date":"2020-03-08T07:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/2020\/10\/02\/lr-highlights-the-launch-of-the-world-march-of-women-in-quebec\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:47:38","slug":"lr-highlights-the-launch-of-the-world-march-of-women-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/lr-highlights-the-launch-of-the-world-march-of-women-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019R highlights the launch of the World March of Women in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal, Sunday, March 8, 2020. L\u2019R des centres de femmes du Qu\u00e9bec is taking advantage of International Women\u2019s Day today to highlight the launch of activities around the World March of Women in Quebec. The 85 women\u2019s centres<\/a> which are members of L\u2019R will participate in mobilizations this year, which are centered on five main issues: poverty, violence, the environment, migrants, and Indigenous women.<\/p>\n

\"Le<\/a>The issue of violence against women is a particular concern within L\u2019R\u2019s network. \u201cFor many women, women\u2019s centres are the entryway to services<\/strong>,\u201d explains Marie-Pier Kouassi, the project manager on issues of violence at L\u2019R. \u201cWomen disclose their experiences during our activities and our employees, who are generalists in women\u2019s issues, are often the first to detect situations of violence; they are also the first to intervene and refer women to other resources as needed\u201d. Taking these facts into consideration, the members of L\u2019R decided at their annual general assembly in June 2018 to prioritize the issue of violence against women from an intersectional<\/strong> perspective. Following this decision, L\u2019R centered its 2019 convention on this issue. L\u2019R also collaborated with an organization called Trajetvi on a research project called Fighting violence against women: feminist practices from L\u2019R\u2019s women\u2019s centres<\/a>, as well as starting a project called En\u2019Rayer les violences<\/strong> (\u201cE\u2019Radicate Violence\u201d) which will continue until 2023 and which seeks to share the expertise that L\u2019R and its members have in dealing with questions concerning violence against women.<\/p>\n

The centres which are members of L\u2019R will organize actions throughout the coming year in order to mobilize and raise awareness prior to the Quebec march, which will be in Terrebonne in the Lanaudi\u00e8re region. \u201cWomen\u2019s centres have always been on the front line of women\u2019s struggles, whether to show the impact that austerity measures have on women\u2019s lives, to recognize invisible work, to apply gender-based analysis to regional development or to fight against antifeminist backlash\u201d, says Diane Messier, the group\u2019s president. \u201cWe were there in 2000, in 2005, in 2010, and in 2015, and we will be there in 2020 because we are, as this year\u2019s International Women\u2019s Day slogan says, \u2018feminist with all our might<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 85 women\u2019s centres which are members of L\u2019R will participate in mobilizations, which are centered on five main issues: poverty, violence, the environment, migrants, and Indigenous women. The issue of violence against women is a particular concern within L\u2019R\u2019s network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcentres.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}