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Getting cancer proved to be the wake-up call that Shirin Ariff was looking for all along. 

He came back and started charging towards me. My daughter jumped in front of me, stuck out her hand and said; “Don’t you dare touch my Mother.”

Zahra’s marriage became abusive, and after five years, she immigrated to Canada with her husband, where she hoped to find a fresh start. That wasn’t the case.

Between 94% and 99% of domestic violence survivors also experienced economic abuse.

“Back then, I thought feminism was just an idea found in a book. Now I see feminism as not just a theoretical movement but as a daily practice of empathy.”

Jessyca Greenwood is a criminal defence lawyer at the female-led practice of Greenwood Lam LLP.