Canada: Violence against Indigenous women, girls in Quebec often neglected, national inquiry says
The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has released a separate report about violence in Quebec,
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Canada’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women issues final report with sweeping calls for change
After more than three years, dozens of community meetings and testimony from well over 2,000 Canadians, the missing and murdered
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231 ‘imperative’ changes: Calls for justice from Canada’s inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women
There are 231 steps that need to be taken by governments and Canadians in order to end the genocide against
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Inuit-specific mental health services among recommendations in Canadian report on violence against Indigenous women
Culturally relevant policing and mental health services are among the Inuit-specific recommendations in a Canadian report on violence against Indigenous
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National inquiry calls murders and disappearances of Indigenous women a ‘Canadian genocide’
The thousands of Indigenous women and girls who were murdered or disappeared across the country in recent decades are victims
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Could Alaska’s rural Indigenous communities fight violence with broader law enforcement powers?
U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is coming to Alaska this week. Sen. Dan Sullivan said he will focus on rural
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Indigenous women across Canada come forward with accounts of forced sterilization, says lawyer
A proposed class action lawsuit alleging the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada is turning up reports from more
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Women’s groups in Northern Canada get $1.6M for gender equality
Four groups working to improve the lives of women and girls in the Northwest Territories, in Canada’s central Arctic, will
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National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls set to present final report in June
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) is set to present its final report June
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Canada: Searching for an Inuk role model to end violence against women
Ending violence against women starts with changing the culture of abuse, and an Inuit women’s group has launched a novel
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U.S. bill would give 5 Indigenous villages in Alaska jurisdiction to prosecute certain crimes
Alaska tribal courts could get a power boost if Congress passes a bill the House is debating to renew the
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Alaska’s Murkowski a no-show at Senate vote on abortion bill
The stage was set in the U.S. Senate Monday for a divisive vote related to late-term abortion, and one open
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Indigenous women and girls: advocates demand federal plan before October election
A coalition of human rights advocates is imploring the federal government to act now on decades of recommendations to address
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Territory in Northern Canada considering ‘domestic violence leave’
Employees in the Northwest Territories, in Canada’s central Arctic, may soon be able to take leave from work if they
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Exhibit in Arctic Canada to showcase evolution of parkas
Mary Avalak deftly threads a needle with caribou sinew and makes a couple of stitches in a caribou-skin parka. Picking
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