Four Ways to Better Protect Indigenous Women in Canada

Four Ways to Better Protect Indigenous Women in Canada

Postby Oscar » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:58 am

Four Ways to Better Protect Indigenous Women in Canada

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Another damning human rights report highlights failures. We sought solutions.

By Jeremy J. Nuttall, January 13, 2015 TheTyee.ca

An international body released a report Monday accusing Canadian law enforcement of failing to protect aboriginal women from violence, disappearances and murder, while calling for an inquiry into the matter. [ http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1 ... en-iac.pdf ]

The report was issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which works within the Organization of American States, comprised of countries throughout the America and founded in 1948 to promote solidarity among North and South American nations.

The report found that aboriginal women in Canada go missing four times more than non-aboriginal women.

"In cases where charges have been laid, 49 per cent of the women were killed by strangers or by acquaintances, as opposed to family members, a significantly higher rate than the rest of the population," read the report. "This indicates that indigenous women and girls may be at greater risk for victimization by sexual predators, serial killers, and other criminals."

The report chiefly addressed missing women in British Columbia, which it said accounted for 160 of the 582 in the database of the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC), though the number of missing women is generally said to be 1,000 across Canada.

The case of Canada's missing indigenous women has made headlines for some time, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently sparked fresh outrage in a year-end interview with the CBC when he said a national inquiry into the disappearances is not high on the government's radar

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