Infographics

This collection of Learning Network resources is designed to synthesize and disseminate knowledge on topics related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV). These resources provide foundational GBV knowledge including commonly used language, important gaps and emerging issues, recent research, and important educational tools and resources.

All original materials produced by the Learning Network are open-access and can be re-used and re-distributed as long as there is proper recognition of the author and/or Learning Network.

Our Infographics display information in a concise and engaging graphic manner.

Trauma-Informed Support for Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (2024)

Trauma-Informed-Support-for-Survivors-of-Female-Genital-MutilationCutting-thumb.pngFemale genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a form of gender-based violence and is a human rights violation. It is a global concern and impacts survivors in Canada.

Service providers can better support survivors through trauma-informed care. Find strategies in this infographic developed in collaboration with Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre

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Experiences of Weight-Based Discrimination and Violence (2023)

Experiences-of-Weight-Based-Discrimination-and-Violence-IMG-tiny.pngThis infographic shares information about what weight-based discrimination is and how it intersects with intimate partner violence through an interactive example.

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Sexting Only With Consent! (2023)

Sexting-Only-With-Consent-IMG-tiny.pngThis infographic shares information about the importance of consent in sexting. It describes what sexting is, the role of consensual sexting, and what sexting looks like in healthy relationships.

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Stronger Together! 3 Reasons for Local Governments & Community Organizations to Collaborate to End GBV (2022)

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Not Optional! 4 Building Blocks for Collaboration Between Local Governments & Community Organizations to End GBV (2022)

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Context Matters! Gender-Based Violence in Sport (2022)

Context-Matters-Gender-Based-Violence-in-Sport-mini.pngThis infographic shares contextual considerations to keep in mind when supporting and empowering athlete survivors of gender-based violence.

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Coercive Control During Intimate Partner Violence: What About Children? (2022)

This infographic focuses on how children and parents experience coercive control during intimate partner violence, and what service providers can do to support children.

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Trans Women and Intimate Partner Violence: Fundamentals for Service Providers (2021)

Trans-Women-and-Intimate-Partner-Violence-Web.pngThis infographic shares data from a national Trans PULSE Canada survey regarding Trans women's experiences of intimate partner violence.

It identifies barriers Trans women face in accessing services and offers some fundamentals for service providers to support Trans women.

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Intersecting Oppressions Shape Experiences of IPV Faced by Women with Disabilities (2021)

img.pngThis infographic shares the necessity of an intersectional approach to intimate partner violence as such an approach helps to ensure that prevention efforts and service delivery meet the needs of survivors.

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Sex Only with Consent! (2021)

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This infographic shares what consent is and when consent cannot be given.

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Economic Abuse: Coercive Control Tactics in Intimate Relationships (2021)

Economic-Abuse-thumb.pngThis infographic explores 3 forms of economic abuse and associated tactics used to coercively control intimate partners.

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End Violence in Canadian Nursing and Retirement Homes (2021)

End Violence in Canadian Nursing and Retirement Homes InfographicThis infographic shares 2019 police-reported data about violence against seniors in nursing and retirement homes.

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Senior Women Face Disproportionate Rates of Family Violence (2021)

Senior Women Face Disproportionate Rates of Family ViolenceThis infographic shares police-reported data on how senior women in Canada are more likely than senior men to experience family violence, particularly spousal violence.  

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Stress, Interpersonal Violence and COVID-19 (2020)


stress-covid-info-img.pngCOVID-19 has changed many aspects of our lives, including our mental health. Pandemic-related stress may have an even greater impact on people who are already coping with trauma such as intimate partner violence, sexual violence or child maltreatment

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7 Protective Factors that Promote Children's Resilience (2020)

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This infographic provides a brief overview of 7 promising protective factors that have been shown to promote children’s resilience following exposure to intimate partner violence.

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Sexual Violence and COVID-19 (2020)

Sexual-Violence-COVID-19-thumbnail.pngThis infographic shares some of the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting sexual violence.

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Intimate Partner Violence in a Pandemic: COVID-19-Related Controlling Behaviours (2020)

LN-COVID-19-Related-Controlling-Behaviours-thumb.pngThis infographic shares how the control and intimidation tactics already used by partners who cause harm, can be compounded by their use of COVID-19-related controlling behaviours.

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3 Considerations for Supporting Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)

LN-Safety-COVID-19-thumbnail.jpgThis infographic shares three considerations when supporting women experiencing intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Gender Earnings Gap Among Post-Secondary Graduates (2020)


This infographic shows the earning disparities between men and women 5 years after post-secondary graduation.

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What You Need To Know About Non-Consensual Sexual Deepfakes (2019)

This inforgraphic focuses on the non-consensual use of adults' images and videos in the production and distribution of sexual deepfakes.

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University Student Voices on Sexual Violence - Results from an Ontario-Wide Survey (2019)


Student Voices on Sexual Violence: Results from an Ontario-wide Survey (2019)

University Student Voices on Sexual Violence - Results from an Ontario-Wide Survey

This infographic summarizes the results from a 2018 study on the responses from Ontario university students about their perceptions and experiences of sexual violence on and off campus.

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College Student Voices on Sexual Violence - Results from an Ontario-Wide Survey (2019)

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Student Voices on Sexual Violence: Results from an Ontario-wide Survey (2019)

College Student Voices on Sexual Violence - Results from an Ontario-Wide Survey

This infographic summarizes the results from a 2018 study on the responses from Ontario university students about their perceptions and experiences of sexual violence on and off campus.

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Supporting Survivors in Shelters (2018)


This infographic shows how women who face IPV are at increased risk for violence, which can lead to traumatic brain injury (TBI). It shares how TBI affects women and how survivors of IPV experiencing TBI may be supported.

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10 reasons why housing issues in Canada put youth at risk (2018)


This infographic lists 10 reasons why youth in Canada are put at risk due to housing issues.

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Barriers to Reporting or Disclosing Violence and Seeking Help (2018)

Intimate Partner Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women

Barriers to Reporting or Disclosing Violence and Seeking Help

This infographic provides examples of barriers that immigrant or refugee women may encounter that prevent them from getting appropriate help or from disclosing violence.

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Factors that Contribute to Risks and Vulnerabilities associated with IPV in Immigrant and Refugee Communities (2018)

Intimate Partner Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women

Factors that Contribute to Risks and Vulnerabilities associated with IPV in Immigrant and Refugee Communities

This infographic shows some global factors that contribute to the risks and vulnerabilites that are associated with intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities.

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Preventing Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities (2018)

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Intimate Partner Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women

Preventing Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities

This infographic presents 6 ways to prevent violence in immigrant and refugee communities. It also provides examples of practical ways that can help address this issue.

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Structural Violence Impacting Marginalized Women (2018)

Intimate Partner Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women

Structural Violence Impacting Marginalized Women

This infographic lists some of the forms of structural violence that often compound the experiences of marginalized women.

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Enhance Women's Safety by Keeping Pets Safe (2017)

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Enhancing Women's Safety by Keeping Pets Safe

This infographic addresses ways to enhance the safety of women with pets in domestic violence.

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Sexual Consent is Essential (2017)

Sexual Consent is Essential

This infographic provides examples of what consent sounds like and the conditions that are necessary to obtain consent.

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IPV Perpetration & Child Maltreatment: Shared Risk Factors (2016)

Boys' Victimization & Adult IPV Perpetration: Opportunities for Prevention Across the Life Course (2016)

IPV Perpetration & Child Maltreatment: Shared Risk Factors

This inforgraphic addresses the shared risk factors between IPV perpetration and child maltreatment.

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Associated Consequences of Family Violence Across the Life Course (2016)

Boys Victimization & Adult IPV Perpertration: Opportunities for Prevention Across the Life Course (2016)

Associated Consequences of Family Violence Across the Life Course

This infographic shows the consequences of family violence from infancy, to childhood, to adolesence, to adulthood, and into old age.

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Theoretical Frameworks for the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence (2016)

Boys Victimization & Adult IPV Perpertration: Opportunities for Prevention Across the Life Course

Theoretical Frameworks for the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence

This infographic shows the three theoretical frameworks (trauma theory, social learning theory, attachment theory) that explain the link between boys' experiences of violence and future perpetration of IPV.

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Considerations for Practice in Preventing Violence Across the Life Course (2016)

Boys Victimization & Adult IPV Perpertration: Opportunities for Prevention Across the Life Course

Considerations for Practice in Preventing Violence Across the Life Course

This infographic provdes training, collaboration, services provision and system approaches information that can be implemented into practice to address IPV and the victimization of boys/men.

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Common Intersections of Sexual and Physical Violence (2016)

Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

Common Intersections of Sexual and Physical Violence

This infographic shows that intimate partner sexual violence exists in the intersection between sexual violence and domestic violence, and also shows how revictimization occurs across the life course.

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Inclusive Language around Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (2016)

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Inclusive Language around Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

This infographic shows the various terms that are used to describe intimate partner sexual violence.

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Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Power and Control Wheel (2016)

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Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Power and Control Wheel

This infographic shows the power and control wheel of intimate partner sexual violence, it includes multiple examples of how IPSV can exist.

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Factors Impacting Understandings of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (2016)

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Factors Impacting Understandings of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

This infographic shows our current understanding of IPSV, it acknowledges its complexities, the multiple facets it exists in and how it is understood.

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Intimate Partner Sexual Violence at the Intersections: Examples of Lived Experience (2016)

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Intimate Partner Sexual Violence at the Intersections: Examples of Lived Experience

This infographic provides examples of women who are likely to face intimate partner sexual violence.

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Understanding Rape Culture (2016)

Understanding Rape Culture

This infographic shows the different ways in which rape culture is perpetrated in the Canadian context.

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Human Trafficking

Low Risk - High Reward for Traffickers

This infographic shows the profit illicitly earned by traffickers for one female for the average day, week, and year.

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Actions you can take if you are being sexually harassed (2016)

Sexual & Gender-Based Harassment

Actions you can take if you are being sexually harassed

This infographic provides information on actions that victims of sexual harassment can take in receiving support for sexual and gender-based harassment.

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Barriers to reporting sexual harassment (2016)

Sexual & Gender-Based Harassment

Barriers to reporting sexual harassment

This infographic explains some of the barriers that exist for victims to report experiences of sexual violence.

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Places where sexual harassment occurs and its potential impacts (2016)

Sexual & Gender-Based Harassment

Places where sexual harassment occurs and its potential impacts

This infographic addresses three spaces where sexual harassment can take place: street harassment, workplace sexual harassment, and sexual harassment in educational settings. It also lists potential impacts of sexual harassment in each of the settings.

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Sexual Harassment - What is a myth and what is reality? (2016)

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Sexual Harassment - What is a myth and what is reality?

This infographic distinguishes commonly held myths from the realities of sexual harassment.

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Tracing the Roots of Femicide (2015)




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Tracing the Roots of Femicide 

This infographic emerged from the Issue-Based Newsletter 14: Femicide.
 

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Actions to End Femicide (2015)

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Actions to End Femicide

This infographic emerged from the Issue-Based Newsletter 14: Femicide.
 

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Ideas for Bringing Intersectionality into Practice (2015)

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Ideas for Bringing Intersectionality into Practice

This infographic provides a series of questions that can be incorporated into training programs to apply an intersectionalist approach.

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Experiences of gender-based violence are shaped by the intersection of various aspects of identity (2015)

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Experiences of gender-based violence are shaped by the intersection of various aspects of identity

This infographic shows that various aspects of identity can co-exist to shape the experience of gender-based violence.

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Questions to consider when working intersectionally (2015)

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Questions to consider when working intersectionally

This infographic provides contextual questions that can be asked when working with an intersectional approach.

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Intersectionality Wheel (2015)

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Intersectionality Wheel

This infographic provides examples of unique circumstances, aspects of identity, types of discrimination impacting identity, a larger structural forces that can be used to inform an intersectional approach. It also lists statistics pertaining to various intersectionalities that exist. 

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Children's Unique Circumstances of Power, Privilege and Identity (2015)

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Children's Unique Circumstances of Power, Privilege and Identity

This infographic lists some of the factors creating unique social circumstances experienced by children, including structural forces, types of discrimination, and aspects of identity.

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Barriers to Services for LGBT Survivors and Abusive Partners (2015)

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Barriers to Services for LGBT Survivors and Abusive Partners

This infographic lists some of the barriers that exist and that LGBT survivors and abusive partners face when trying to access services and help.

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Competencies to Reduce Barriers for LGBT Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (2015)

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Competencies to Reduce Barriers for LGBT Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

This infographic lists practices that service providers can incorporate to address the service barriers faced by LGBT individuals, it also provides examples of what these practices can entail.

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Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Rainbow Communities (2015)

Intimate Partner Violence In Rainbow Communities

Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Rainbow Communities

This infographic provides information about the experiences of intimate partner violence survivors, which also include LGBT survivors. It also provides tailored information about various forms of abuse that LGBT survivors face.

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Intimate Partner Violence in LGBT Relationships (2015)

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Intimate Partner Violence in LGBT Relationships

This infographic shows the multiple, compounding dimensions (including individual and social factors) that impact how LGBT people experience intimate partner violence.

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Why is Gender Equality Important (2014)

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Why is Gender Equality Important

This infographic explains why gender equality is an important measure and why it is important to consider. This means addressing gendered violence, which is rooted in gendered inequalities.

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How is Gender Equality Measured? (2014)

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How is Gender Equality Measured?

This infographic explains how gender equality is measured by the World Economic Forum in terms of economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.

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A Gap Continues to Exist in Women's Political Participation (2014)

Gender Equality

A Gap Continues to Exist in Women's Political Participation

This inforgraphic shows the gender gaps that exist in women's political participation by looking at the ministerial (cabinet), House of Commons, and Senate seats they hold.

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Health & Well-being of Canadian Women (2014)

Gender Equality

Health & Well-being of Canadian Women

This infographic shows how women are disproportionately affected by intimate partner violence and sexual violence, which affects their participation and productivity in the workforce.

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Economic Instability or Dependence Keeping Women in Abusive Relationships (2014)

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Economic Instability or Dependence Keeping Women in Abusive Relationships

This infographic shows how leaving an abusive relationship can be economically budensome for women. Survivors escaping violence are more likely to rely on food banks and receive income assistance.

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Women's Economic Well-being Continues to Lag Behind Male Peers (2014)

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Women's Economic Well-being Continues to Lag Behind Male Peers

This infographic shows how women's economic well-being continue to lag behind male peers despite advances for women in education and training.

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Engaging Men & Boys to End Violence Against Women (2013)

Men's Attitudes and Behaviours Toward Violence Against Women (Infographic created by White Ribbon)

This infographic shares the results from a 2012 study conducted with 1,064 men over 18 in Ontario about their attitudes and behaviours with regard to violence against women.

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Violence Against Women Living with Disabilities in Canada (2013)

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Violence Against Women Living with Disabilities in Canada

This infographic shows statistics related to the disproportionate rates of violence women with disabilities experience.

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Violence Against Women with disAbilities and Deaf Women (2013)

Violence Against Women with DisAbilities and Deaf Women

Violence Against Women with disAbilities and Deaf Women

This infographic shows facts related to the prevalence of violence that women with disabilities face, as well as the rate of services that are available to them.

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Violence Against Young Women (2013)

Violence Against Young Women

This infographic presents statistics on violence against women in secondary school, college, and university. It also compares rates of violence against women 15-34 to the rates experienced by older women.

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Few Sexual Assaults Lead to Court Convictions (2012)

Few Sexual Assaults Lead to Court Convictions

Using data from Statistics Canada, this infographic compares the rates of reported sexual assaults to the percentage of cases that result in court conviction.

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