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Response by Canada to the Recommendations Contained in the Concluding Observations of the Committee Following the Examination of the Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Report of Canada on 22 October 2008

Alternate Title
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Forty-eighth Session, 17 January - 4 February 2011
Information Provided in Follow-up to the Concluding Observations of the Committee: Canada
Supplemental Information Provided to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Committee had requested additional information on measures undertaken with respect to missing and murdered Aboriginal women. "Advance unedited version"
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[Response to the MMIWG2S Calls for Justice and Red Women Rising Recommendations]

Alternate Title
MMIWG2S Response Report: Response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice and Red Women Rising Report Recommendations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Rachel Wuttunee]
[Shabna Ali]

Purpose of the report was to review the recommendations from the two bodies, assess the extent to which the City has implemented the relevant ones, if it has been done effectively, and ensure better alignment in the future. Report begins on p. 14.

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Responses of Canada to the List of Issues and Questions with Regard to the Consideration of Canada's Sixth and Seventh Reports on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Pre-Session Working Group, Forty-second Session, 20 October-7 November 2008
[Responses to the List of Issues and Questions with Regard to the Consideration of the Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports: Canada]
[United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Many of the questions refer specifically to Aboriginal women: violence against, missing or murdered, participation in governance, education, employment, Indian status, matrimonial real property, etc.
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Revelatory Protest, Deliberative Exclusion, and the BC Missing Women Commission of Inquiry: Bridging the Mirco/Macro Divide

Alternate Title
Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Genevieve Fuji Johnson
pp. [25]-46
An analysis of Indigenous women's activists role into the creation of an inquiry into the well beings of Indigenous women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and in exposes the flaws in the inquiry and the impact to changes they achieved. A chapter from Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy edited by Leah R. E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe. To access chapter scroll down to page 25.
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Rubbed Out

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Renee Rodin
West Coast Line, vol. 41, no. 1, Representations of Murdered and Missing Women, Spring, 2007, pp. 120-125
Describes a murder case that the perpetrator wasn't prosecuted in.
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Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence against Native Women

Alternate Title
Dancing Myself Home
Historical Resilience: The Story of Violence against Native Women
More Than Seven Times for the Next Seven Generations
Save Our Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Sovereignty of Our Nations, in the Law and Over Our Bodies
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sarah Deer
Mary Kathryn Nagle
Jaime Black
Marita Growing Thunder
Cherrah Giles
Videos of talks given at a symposium sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian. "Historical Resilience: The Story of Violence against Native Women" by Sarah Deer. "Sovereignty of Our Nations, in the Law, and Over Our Bodies" by Mary Kathryn Nagle. "Dancing Myself Home" by Jaime Black. "More Than Seven Times for the Next Seven Generations" by Cerrah Giles. "Save Our Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls" by Marita Growing Thunder. Panel Discussion.
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Scenes from the Fringe: Gendered Violence and the Geographies of Indigenous Feminism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shari M. Huhndorf
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 46, no. 3, Spring, 2021, pp. 561-587
Reviews three Indigenous visual artistic projects, created in response to the arrest of serial murderer Robert Pickton, and their representations of Indigenous women's historical mistreatment.
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Seeking Justice For Canada's 500 Missing Native Women

Alternate Title
Seeking Justice for Canada's Five Hundred Missing Native Women
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Deidre d'Entremont
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, The International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, Fall, 2004
Comments on Robert Pickton's trial, missing aboriginal women and violence against aboriginal women.
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[Settler Reflections: Knowing and Refusing to Know about Canada's Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women]

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[University of Saskatchewan College of Law Guest Speakers Series]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mary Eberts
Video of lecture given by the Ariel Sallows Chair in Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law on October 24, 2011. Speaker discusses portrayal of Aboriginal women in the Ecstasy of Rita Jo by George Ryga and the Manawaka cycle by Margaret Laurence as they relate to the current context. Duration: 42:18.
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Sexualized Violence and Colonialism: Reflections on the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sherene H. Razack
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 28, no. 2, [Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference], 2016, pp. i-iv
Introduction to the journal articles, presented at a symposium held January 30-31, 2016, that explore the prospect of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
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Shades of Our Sisters

Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
[Maggie Cywink
Alex Cywink
Joyce Carpenter
Laura Heidenheim
Michael Rebellato
Josephine Tse
Melissa Gonzalez ... [et al.]]
Website for multimedia exhibition developed by families of two murdered women, Sonya Cywink and Patricia Carpenter, and eight Ryerson media Production students. Family members share memories of the women and what their loss means to them.
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Silent No More

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Erin Williams
White Bison Inc.
Documentary about missing and murdered Indigenous women in United States. Duration: 52:19.
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Sisters in Spirit Research Framework: Reflecting on Methodology and Process

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jennifer King
Aboriginal Policy Research, vol. 10

Looks at the Native Women's Association of Canada's multi-year research, education, and policy initiative dealing with the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.

Chapter from Voting, Governance, and Research Methodology edited by Jerry P. White, Julie Peters, Dan Beavon, and Peter Dinsdale, which is vol. 10 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

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The Skin of the Photograph: Representing the Murdered Women of Juárez

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nicholas Chare
West Coast Line, vol. 41, no. 1, Representations of Murdered and Missing Women, Spring, 2007, pp. 26-31
Discussion of a photograph and what the image depicts of an unfair and exploitive economic system and the realities of the lives of women working in the factories of Juárez.
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Special Submission to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) on Access to Justice for Aboriginal Women in Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Focuses on violence experienced by women and girls, over-representation of First Nations children in the child welfare system, gap in educational attainment, over-representation of Aboriginal women in the federal penitentiary system, and gender-based discrimination in legislation.
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Special Supplement on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women in British Columbia: Group Submission to the Human Rights Committee on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Sixth Periodic Report of Canada Submitted June 5th, 2015

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BC CEDAW

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.

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Standing Together and Moving Forward: Report of the Pre-Hearing Conference in Prince George and the Northern Community Forums: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Documents & Presentations
Seven themes emerged in presentations: need to stand together and move forward, concerns about limitations of Commission process, impact of missing women and girls on their communities, connections between investigations in Vancouver and along the Highway of Tears, transportation issues, frustration over inaction, and the importance of understanding First Nations and northern realities.
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Standing up Against the Giant

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane E. Benson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 67-79
Author describes the academic and community fallout when an email—sent to family members—criticizing her professor’s racist writings is made public.
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Standing with Our American Indian and Alaska Native Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People: Exploring the Impact of and Resources for Survivors of Human Trafficking

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Glenna P. Stumblingbear-Riddle
Ann K. Burlew
Daniel Gaztambide
Michelle R. Madore
Helen Neville
Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 7, no. 1, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, 2019, p. Article 1
Authors use an intersectional and trauma-informed approach to engage with the consequences of human trafficking for Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people; they then consider resiliency factors, and make culturally informed recommendations to assist psychologists in working with survivors of trafficking.
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Stepping into the Circle

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Alberta Council of Women's Shelters
Contains links to a series of eight modules and videos in the series In Conversation with Lewis Cardinal. Designed to educate staff and participants in Sharing Circles about Indigenous history, culture and knowledge. Topics include Indigenous worldviews, missing and murdered Indigenous women, treaty relations, building relationships, women in Indigenous societies, contemporary women's leadership, and the circle process.
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Stitching through Silence: Walking with Our Sisters, Honoring the Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephanie G. Anderson
Textile, vol. 14, no. 1, Crafting Community, 2016, pp. 84-97
Discussion of the commemorative installation comprised of embellished moccasin vamps or tongues created in memory of missing and murdered women. Project was initiated by artist Christi Belcourt and currently consists of over 1700 pairs.
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Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amnesty International
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. 105-121
Examines nine case studies involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and the factors which have contributed to the high risk of violence.
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Stolen Sisters: Colonial Roots of Sexual Violence against Aboriginal Women and Unsympathetic Media Representations toward Their Stories in Contemporary Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Sanlad
Capstone Seminar Series, vol. 5, no. 1, Disturbing Representations; Citizenship, Media, and Identities, Spring, 2015, pp. [3-15]

Discusses how colonialism has created behavioral patterns and attitudes which serve to legitimize violence against Indigenous women and perpetuate racism and discrimination

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Structural Intersectionality and Indigenous Canadian Youth who Trade Sex: Understanding Mobility beyond the Trafficking Model

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Allan Jun-Rong Ting
Carisa R Showden
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 261-270
Article describe different models for understanding the intersecting relationships between the movement/migration of Indigenous youth who trade sex, the sex trade as a whole, and the social and cultural institutions which define, criminalize/prosecute, and intervene in the sex trade. Authors argue that the mobility of Indigenous youth in the sex trade is not always “trafficking” and can often be a response to marginalizing factors, rather than a source of marginality.
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Survey Report on the Calls for Justice of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Southern Chief's Organization [Manitoba]
Reports findings of survey which asked 23 questions about the Calls to Justice. Topics were: culture, health and wellness, policing, corrections, media and social influencers, education, child welfare, natural resource extraction, human security, and rights.
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Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alejandro Zuluaga
Harsha Walia
Jessica Wood
Janet Pete
Delaney S. ... [et al.]
Documentary focuses on 20 year history of the annual women's memorial march for missing and murdered women, and the personal stories of residents of the neighbourhood. Based on a concept developed by the Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group. Duration: 32:54.
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