A Scan of International Report Recommendations on COVID-19 and Indigenous People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jade Dumoulin
Gives background to the issue, discusses the reports produced by the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and reports on the response of the federal and provincial governments.
Discusses how colonialism has created behavioral patterns and attitudes which serve to legitimize violence against Indigenous women and perpetuate racism and discrimination