‘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…
MMIWG
MMIWG Inquiry Anniversary
On June 3, 2019, Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The report goes into detail on the struggle families have with authorities over loved ones that have either been murdered or gone missing – and labels what Indigenous women have experienced since colonization as genocide.
The commissioners released 231 Calls for Justice from provincial, territorial and federal authorities.
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Poet pulls out of University of Regina lecture after MMIWG controversy
Scholars were among the first to call out the university.
After UNDRIP, MMIWG commitments, attention turns to throne speech for hint of what comes next
When National Chief Perry Bellegarde took to the stage to address the delegation to close…
UNDRIP, MMIWG action plan on the way, feds tell First Nation chiefs
But questions about timely and thorough consultation remain.