UPDATE: Visit this page for information on the completed project. In honour of Domestic Violence Awareness month, the Amal Center would like to share with its supporters a project video which summarizes its efforts over the past 12 months towards its project “A Dialogue Approach to Ending Violence Against Muslim...

The Amal Center for Women has been providing social services to women in Montreal for over 13 years. The organization was founded in 2002 at the request of a Montreal Imam who was overwhelmed by cases of domestic violence in the growing Montreal Muslim community. As a result, Amal was...

by: Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Violence against women is a very serious issue that affects roughly half of all Canadian women starting from the age of 16. The numbers are harrowing, Statistics Canada reports that: “On average, every six days a woman in Canada is killed...