Special Report by the Québec Ombudsman: Detention Conditions, Administration of Justice and Crime Prevention in Nunavik
Related Material: Assessment of Follow-Up to Recommendations.
Related Material: Assessment of Follow-Up to Recommendations.
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.
Focuses on Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Discusses how colonialism has created behavioral patterns and attitudes which serve to legitimize violence against Indigenous women and perpetuate racism and discrimination
Reflects on a speech given at the Assembly of First Nations Annual General Meeting in July 2010 encouraging all Canadians to work together to improve the lives and future of First Nation's people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.