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Braving the Storm

Have you experienced or witnessed racism, discrimination, harassment, or a hate incident? This page provides a safe space to voluntarily share an experience that happened to you, that you witnessed, or that you are reporting on behalf of someone else.

About the Project

Braving the Storm equips immigrant women to recognize, respond to, and report incidents of hate. This anti-hate project aims to document experiences of racism, discrimination and hate among racialized immigrant women. Information collected through this form will help the Immigrant Women’s Information Network (IWIN) identify patterns, strengthen advocacy, and develop educational resources to help communities recognize, prevent and respond to hate.

 

The three-year project runs from April 2026 to March 2029 and is funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program.

For more information about Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate, including definitions of hate crimes and hate incidents, current hate-related trends in Canada, federal priorities and initiatives, and information about Canada’s legal framework for addressing hate, please click here.

Through the Braving the Storm project, the Immigrant Women’s Information Network (IWIN) is collecting information about experiences of racism, discrimination, and hate affecting racialized immigrant women in Canada. The information collected will help us identify patterns and trends, strengthen advocacy, develop educational resources, and support community efforts to recognize, prevent, and respond to hate.

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How this information will be used

Submitting a self-report will allow you to safely share your information to be added to wider database of information being collected both through your individual submissions as well as our own research to note any correlations and hateful trends in Canada.

 

Information collected will aid us in understanding trends affecting racialized immigrant women and will support advocacy, the creation of education tools, and community safety efforts.

 

Submitting a report is voluntary. You may choose to remain anonymous. Personal information will be kept confidential unless otherwise stated and will only be used in accordance with our privacy policies. If you wish, you can collaborate with IWIN to share your experiences online, with a wider audience, as part of our digital campaign.

 

 

This is not an official report service. Please contact emergency services if you are in imminent danger. As this is an ongoing project, your responses are deeply appreciated in helping us achieve its fruition.

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Resources & Support

The following organizations and services can provide information, support and guidance.

211 Canada

Connects you with local community and social services, including counselling, mental health supports, legal help, housing assistance and more.

Visit 211 Canada

Victim Services Directory

Search for victim support organizations and services in your province or territory, including counselling, crisis intervention, and advocacy.

Find Support Near You

Canadian Race Relations

Foundation

Tools and guidance for recognizing, recording, and reporting hate. Includes a toolkit and resources for supporting individuals and communities affected by hate.

For More Information

Our work takes place on the traditional territories of First Nations, Inuit and Metis people. As a feminist social justice group serving immigrant women, IWIN is committed to understanding the past and ongoing consequences of colonialism, especially on indigenous women. We stand by our Indigenous sisters across Turtle Island in their search for truth, reconciliation and gender and racial justice.

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