MPs call for more help for Indigenous women
Members of Parliament pressed the government during opening statements prior to a special committee on…
Indigenous Women
‘We are not safe’: Online threats, racism causing fear for Indigenous women says MMIWG commissioner
Michele Audette feels disappointed when she looks online and sees a barrage of violent threats…
Yukon organizations receive money to extend services for Indigenous women and children
Four Yukon based organizations will be getting $50,000 each to help prevent violence towards indigenous…
Indigenous women in Montreal subjected to random police checks because of ‘systemic bias’: report
A damning report out of Montreal has revealed that Indigenous women are subject to random…
Deaths of three Indigenous women in Montreal ignite calls for more frontline services
David Chapman stands near the kitchen inside the Open Door shelter in Montreal and points…
Women’s rights advocate pitching to get inside the heads of men who kill Indigenous women
A women’s rights advocate in Edmonton is pitching a unique idea to Corrections Canada to…
NDP take up case against forced sterilization of Indigenous women
So far, 60 Indigenous women have joined a proposed class-action lawsuit.
UN demands Canada act on ‘forced sterilization’, Mohawk rights
“The committee expressed serious concerns about continued violence against Indigenous women.”
Canadian senator says there are too many Indigenous women in prison
Kim Pate has spent the past 35 years working in and around the legal and…
