Family of slain Indigenous woman walk in her honour and other MMIW
Monica Lee Burns was found on a trail earlier this month.
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MMIWG Inquiry Anniversary
June 3 marks the one-year anniversary of Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The report goes into detail on the struggle families have with authorities over loved ones that have either been murdered or gone missing – and labels what Indigenous women have experienced since colonization as genocide.
The commissioners released 231 Calls for Justice from provincial, territorial and federal authorities.
National Chief candidate Perry Bellegarde says he’ll push for national inquiry into MMIW
APTN National News In just over a week, chiefs from across Canada will converge on…
Friendship centres and Ontario look to get people talking about MMIW
Ontario has long supported a national inquiry into the crisis.
Harper’s approach to MMIW ‘quite disturbing’ says Indigenous senator
Senator Sandra Lovelace Nicholas Special to APTN National News OTTAWA – It is with a…
Family of missing Mi’kmaq woman plead for help
By Trina Roache APTN National News Family and friends of Chrisma Denny are asking a…
Plans for MMIW roundtable underway
APTN National News Provincial ministers and national Aboriginal leaders met in Nova Scotia Wednesday. Not…
Red dresses hang from Gatineau lamp posts for #mmiw
Annette Francis APTN National News GATINEAU – As hundreds of Sisters in Spirit vigils across…
It felt like there was no end to the screaming sadness: one sister’s take on #mmiw
The Harper government’s “action plan” released on Sept. 15 once again places the blame on Indigenous communities.
There has been a war against Indigenous women since colonization: former NWAC president
Jacobs says a Royal Commission is needed on missing and murdered Indigenous women.