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Cambridge Bay’s 1st transition home for women set to open soon in Eastern Canadian Arctic

Amy Tucker, CBC
Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 17:40
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The Kitikmeot Friendship Society announced its latest pilot project — a transitional home for women in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. It’s

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Violence Against Women bill would expand power of up to 30 Alaska tribal courts

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 11:06
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To help tackle the high rates of violence in Alaska Native villages, a bill in Congress would expand tribal court

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In this July 18, 2011 photo, an Inuit fisherman pulls in a fish on a sea filled with floating ice left over from broken-up icebergs shed from the Greenland ice sheet in Ilulissat, Greenland. (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
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Greenland accedes to UN treaty against mercury pollution

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 16:00
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Greenland has acceded to the UN treaty against mercury pollution, the government said on Wednesday. “The supply of mercury to

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Women on Arctic research mission told not to wear tight-fitting clothing

John Last and Bradlyn Oakes (CBC NORTH)
Posted: Monday, September 28, 2020 at 11:06 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 09:55
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A prominent Arctic research mission is coming under fire for a dress code policy that has highlighted concerns about systemic

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Women in Northern Canada travel farthest to access domestic violence shelters

Kate Kyle, Tara Carman, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 14:53
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It was the first and only time Ann Kasook attempted to run away. She still feels shaken when she talks

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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

US Senate passes bill with funds for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 09:06 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 14:46
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last week agreed to spend $6.5 million to tackle the epidemic of missing and murdered

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Caroline Cochrane elected premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories

John Last and Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 15:09 — Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 13:30
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Caroline Cochrane, MLA for Yellowknife’s Range Lake district, has been elected premier of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada. Cochrane

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: What Canada’s parties are promising

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 16:09
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Little time has been spent on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls so far in Canada’s

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Offender in Northern Canada wins appeal, overturns banishment from his community

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:35
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A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Record number of women elected in Northwest Territories, Northern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 10:37 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 15:43
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A record number of women have been elected to the Northwest Territories 19th Legislative Assembly — making it the jurisdiction

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: Yukon women weigh in on sexism in politics

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 15:34 — Last Updated: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 16:34
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Senator Pat Duncan has no trouble recalling how she was sometimes belittled as the first female premier in Yukon, Arctic

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General News Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Assessing Margot Wallström’s legacy as Swedish foreign minister

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 13:31 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 10:36
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Margot Wallström spent some five years as Sweden’s foreign minister and launched the world’s first feminist foreign policy before announcing

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Finland General News Politics Politics (Finland) 

Women now lead most Finnish political parties

Yle News
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 10:07 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 16:20
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When Finland’s Centre Party elected Katri Kulmuni as its new leader last weekend, Finnish political history turned a new page:

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: final report altered to fix error

Evan Dyer, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 11:45 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 11:49
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The MMIWG national inquiry overstated in its final report the percentage of Canadian homicide victims who are Indigenous women and

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Violence against Indigenous women: Northwest Territories gov not yet committing to recommendations

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 14:08
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The N.W.T. government is not yet committing to act on all the recommendations from the inquiry into missing and murdered

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