Panel discussion about government accountability and the forthcoming inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and efforts to strengthen community-based responses. to violence.
Duration: 2:16:01.
Canadian Dimension, vol. 39, no. 2, March/April 2005, pp. 34-35
Description
Explains the issue and describes the "Sisters in Spirit" campaign that urges government action to ensure the safety of Indigenous women in Canadian cities.
Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS)
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 94-104
Description
Paper asserts that the state must take positive and progressive action to eliminate discrimination against marginalized women.
Project involved organizing gathering of families in order to hear their stories and opinions, and interviewing front line workers and police officers working in Nunavik.
Five topics: police failure to protect women at risk, how discriminatory attitudes, biases and stereotyping undermined investigations, suppression of information about risk of a serial killer, and Crown counsel's decision to stay attempted murder charge against Robert Pickton in January 1997.