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Senate committee to recommend changes to end ‘horrific’ forced, coerced sterilization

Jul 14, 2022 | 2:23 AM

OTTAWA — The Senate is expected to release recommendations today to end forced and coerced sterilization in Canada. 

The committee on human rights has been looking into the issue and is holding a press conference at 11 a.m. to talk about its new report.

In June 2021, the same committee released a preliminary report which found “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.”

The report says forced and coerced sterilization is underreported and disproportionately affects Indigenous women and other vulnerable and marginalized groups.