Addressing Gendered Violence against Inuit Women: A Review of Police Policies and Practices in Inuit Nunangat
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Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women Canada
Elizabeth Comack
Includes three case studies: Ininew Friendship Centre, Cochrane, Ontario; St. David Catholic Elementary School, Sudbury, Ontario; Ohero:kon (Under the Husk) at Six Nations of the Grand River; and N’Amerind Friendship Centre, London, Ontario.
Study results support the need for preventive and public health programs to improve maternal and infant well-being.
NOTE: Also published as Journal of Aboriginal Health, Summer, 2015.
Comments on stories heard at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event held in Saskatoon, June 2012, especially those of women abused while at residential schools and when they returned to their communities.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.