This report results from a year-long study researching and analyzing gender based violence within Muslim Canadian Communities.

Specifically, it looks at how the concept of honour and shame can have both negative and positive consequences with regard to either encouraging or potentially helping to end GBV.

Importantly, the report also discredits – using scriptural evidence and Islamic tradition – the false notion that some Islamic texts supposedly allow for wife beating and other forms of GBV.

The study draws upon existing research as well as extensive interviews to describe services available to Canadian Muslim women, while providing recommendations to policy makers, service providers and religious leaders on their role in changing practices and perceptions.