Disaster management must include ways to tackle gender-based violence

Without action to prevent gender-based violence, the long-term consequences of the 2023 wildfire season will fall on the shoulders of already overburdened frontline health-care workers.

Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan. Under the Liberal government, a review of 28 federal, territorial, and provincial emergency management plans failed to mention the concept of gender-based violence, writes Brenda Cleary.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BRENDA CLEARY

July 11, 2024

The 2024 forest fire season is upon us, and few are thinking about the ongoing fallout from the 2023 fire season. As of last September, fires had torched a staggering 16.5 million hectares of land.

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