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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Commissioners at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls clarified their powers Tuesday on the eve of releasing an interim report into their work of the past 14 months.
The first day of the Membertou hearings of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls inquiry heard emotional testimony from the family of Loretta Saunders, an Inuk murdered in 2014 over rent money.
Out of her purse, Agnes Gould pulls out some sheets of paper – on the front is the agenda for the upcoming hearings for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls taking place this week in Membertou First Nation, NS.
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While families speak their truths at the inquiry in Winnipeg, about 20 students are at a Winnipeg monument that honours missing and murdered Indigenous women using art to tell their stories.
Elders blessed the sacred fire and put down their bundles to open the week of hearings for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Winnipeg Monday.
Children for sale, women gone missing, and bodies dumped in rivers – these are some of the crimes commissioners probing an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls will hear about at the national inquiry in Winnipeg Oct 16-20.
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has announced a new executive director. However, the announcement comes amid word of another high-profile resignation.
