Red Feather Women hope MMIW report leads to change
A group representing First Nations women hopes changes are finally made now that Canada’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women has issued its final report.
In their report, the inquiry’s commissioners argue that through its actions and omissions, Canada has been — and continues to be — complicit in a “genocide” against Indigenous women and girls.
The report points to examples of harms suffered by Indigenous women, LGBTQ and two-spirited people at the hands of Canadian authorities, including the failure to protect them from exploitation, trafficking and killers; deaths in police custody; physical, sexual, and mental abuse in state institutions; the removal of children; forced relocations; the lack of funding for social services and coerced sterilizations.