This banner was part of the Banner Project and focuses on the extent of wife assault and homicide in Canada. The Banner Project asked women’s groups across Canada to produce a protest banner that would become part of a huge banner in Ottawa. The goal was to show the strength and solidarity of women during the Third Commonwealth meeting of Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs in October 1990.
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