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“Neglect happens when a family member, who has a duty to care for you, fails to provide you with your basic needs.

This can involve:

• not providing proper food or warm clothing
• failing to provide adequate health care, medication and personal hygiene (if needed)
• failing to prevent physical harm
• failing to ensure proper supervision (if needed)

Spouses and common-law partners have a duty to care for each other. Adults have a duty to care for their dependent children as well as their dependent parents.

Some forms of neglect are crimes in Canada, including failure to provide the necessities of life and child abandonment. If a child is neglected, child protection authorities could intervene and remove the child from his or her parents.” [1]

Footnotes:

[1] Government of Canada Department of Justice. (n.d.). About family violence. Retrieved from https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/fv-vf/about-apropos.html#neg

“Nonbinary is an umbrella term to reflect a variety of gender identities that are not exclusively man or woman. It is sometimes called enby* for short (a phonetic spelling of the letters N-B).” [1]

“Given that the common feature shared by the identities falling under the trans umbrella is having a societally unexpected experience with gender, many nonbinary folks consider the

nonbinary umbrella a sub-category within the trans umbrella. However, some nonbinary individuals describe their gender experience as being totally distinct from the trans experience, that is, as a separate umbrella entirely.” [1]

Footnotes:

[1] Egale Canada. (2024). Affirming adults: A guide to supporting gender diverse children and youth. https://egale.ca/awareness/affirming-adults-guide/

A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is “a signed legal document that restricts sharing information designated as ‘confidential’ with others.” [1]

NDAs are often used to prevent information from going public that can have negative repercussions for an individual’s or company’s reputation. [1]

They are often misused in cases of gender-based violence to try and conceal the identity of the person who has caused harm and are used to silence survivors. [1]

Learn More:

Backgrounder: End the Misuse of Non-Disclosure Agreements! Informed Choices for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence – Learning Network

Footnotes:

[1] Learning Network. (2023). End the Misuse of Non-Disclosure Agreements! Informed Choices for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence. Retrieved from https://gbvlearningnetwork.ca/our-work/backgrounders/non-disclosure-agreements/End-the-Misuse-of-Non-Disclosure-Agreements.pdf

The term Non-status refers to individuals residing in Canada without official immigration status. This includes those who may have overstayed their visas, had their refugee claims denied, or entered the country without formal authorization. [1-2]

Non-status individuals often face heightened vulnerabilities due to their precarious legal situation, including limited access to essential services such as healthcare, housing, employment, and legal protections. These restrictions increase their risk of exploitation, workplace abuse, and gender-based violence (GBV), while fear of deportation can deter them from seeking support. [1-2]

The intersection of immigration status with factors such as race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, and language barriers can compound these vulnerabilities, making non-status individuals more susceptible to marginalization and systemic discrimination. [1-2]

Learn more:

• Issue-Based Newsletter: Building Survivor Leadership Capacity: Sharing Lessons Learned From Non-Status, Refugee, and Immigrant Women - Learning Network
• Brief: Understanding Barriers to Accessing Legal Support for Family Violence faced by Immigrant, Refugee and Non-Status Women in Canada – Family Violence Family Law

Footnotes:

[1] Pintin-Perez, M. (2023). Building Survivor Leadership Capacity: Sharing Lessons Learned from Non-Status, Refugee, and Immigrant Women. Learning Network Issue 40. Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children.  https://www.gbvlearningnetwork.ca/our-work/issuebased_newsletters/issue-40/index.html

[2] Canadian Council for Refugees. (2003). Non-status immigrants. https://ccrweb.ca/en/res/non-status-immigrants