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Student who was blinded by her ex-husband graduates from UBC

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When she returned to Vancouver from a disastrous trip to Bangladesh in 2011, Rumana Monzur looked beaten. She spoke to reporters at Vancouver International Airport from a wheelchair, her eyes – blinded in an attack by her then-husband – hidden behind dark glasses and her head bowed, tears streaming down her cheeks. But Monzur, 38, persevered, […]

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Samra’s story: When marital abuse did not break her

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  I was 16 when I was forced to marry a stranger and move from the United Arab 
Emirates to Canada. 
Over the next decade, 
I was isolated, humiliated and assaulted. The whole time, 
I was planning my escape​ In 1999, in Abu Dhabi, Samra was a brilliant 16-years-old student of grade 11, dreaming to […]

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Recognizing impacts of childhood trauma in the justice system

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Trauma is something that Michael knows all too well. He says he was about four years old when he and his siblings were first apprehended by child protection services. “There was lots of violence in my home,” he says. After being removed from his home multiple times, he and his sister were sent to live at separate […]

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Why ‘love is medicine’ for Indigenous youth

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This season The Current has been holding public forums across the country, exploring various issues related to missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Their fourth town hall which aired on March 1st focused on how children and youth are affected.     I hope everyone that’s out in wherever this is going, indigenous or non-indigenous […]