Arctic Canada: Yukon women weigh in on sexism in politics
Senator Pat Duncan has no trouble recalling how she was sometimes belittled as the first female premier in Yukon, Arctic
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Assessing Margot Wallström’s legacy as Swedish foreign minister
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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Women now lead most Finnish political parties
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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Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: final report altered to fix error
The MMIWG national inquiry overstated in its final report the percentage of Canadian homicide victims who are Indigenous women and
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Violence against Indigenous women: Northwest Territories gov not yet committing to recommendations
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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Judge sends sex offender back to Arctic Canadian community despite lack of treatment
The Northwest Territories newest judge recently faced a challenge N.W.T. judges have been confronting for decades — what to do
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Canadian gov grants $1M to promote women in northern politics
The governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, in Northern Canada, will receive more than $1 million from the federal
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Canadian gov directs $1.8M to legal support for Nunavut’s women and children
The federal government gave three projects in Nunavut $1.8 million to educate residents on the legal protections that exist for
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Levels of violence against young women in Northern Canada triple rest of country
Young women and girls living in the northern parts of Canada are three times more likely to be victims of
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Gendered impacts of resource development should be studied, says inquiry into violence against Indigenous women in Canada
Before a resource development project goes ahead, it should be assessed for risks it poses to Indigenous women, girls and
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Dene Nation calls for action following inquiry’s report on violence against Indigenous women in Canada
Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya wants Canadian and Indigenous governments to take swift action on the 231 calls to justice
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Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: The legal and moral imperatives behind the inquiry’s calls for justice
In the wake of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ final report, attention is now
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Number of reported domestic violence cases rises in Finland
Last year there were 9,900 cases of domestic violence and intimate partner violence offences reported to Finnish authorities, which is
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Canadian PM says deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls amount to ‘genocide’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government accepts that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls across
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Violence & Indigenous women in Canada: Support available for family members reading inquiry’s final report
Aftercare should not be an afterthought. That’s the message a network of support workers from across the country is sending
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