RESOURCES

Links

Amnesty International
www.amnesty.ca

National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL)
www.nawl.ca

Native Women's Association of Canada
www.nwac-hq.org

Odawa Native Friendship Centre
www.odawa.on.ca

Documents

Aboriginal Roundtable (NWAC, 2004) ~ Download (pdf)

Stolen Sister: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Issues
(Amnesty International, 2004) ~ Download (pdf)

Press Release: Launch of SIS Campaign (NWAC, 2004) ~ Download (pdf)

NWAC Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur investigating the Violations of Indigenous Human Rights (Jacobs, Beverly, 2002) ~ Download (pdf)

Sisters in Spirit Poster ~ Download (pdf)

"SPECIAL STORY ON SISTERS IN SPIRIT"

'Stolen Sisters': Murdered and missing in Canada

Indigenous women in crisis

OTTAWA, Ontario - Over the last two decades, some 500 indigenous women in Canada have been murdered or are missing and feared dead, according to ''Stolen Sisters'', a report recently released by Amnesty International. ''Discrimination and violence against indigenous women is Canada's untold human rights issue,'' said Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada.

The yearlong process of researching and writing the report included a healing ceremony at the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario for those who had lost daughters, sisters and mothers. ''Elders there shepherded us through the two-day process,'' Neve said. ''Many families felt betrayed by government and had little reason to trust outsiders or officials. We wanted to proceed in a way that was conscious of their needs.Read the rest of the Article

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