Canada's First Nations already feel failed by inquiry into missing and murdered women - News Summed Up

Canada's First Nations already feel failed by inquiry into missing and murdered women


For years they had called for justice and demanded change, amid estimates that as many as 4,000 indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada in recent decades. Unsolved murders of indigenous women reflect Canada's history of silence Read more“We have lost confidence in the national inquiry,” Hilda Anderson-Pryz, whose sister Dawn died under mysterious circumstances in 2011, told reporters. “Even though the situation got worse and more women started going missing and more were murdered, the women were relentless. “What’s at stake is that we’re going to lose more and more of indigenous women and girls in Canada.”Others have urged patience with the process. “The Commissioners had to start the National Inquiry from nothing and they are learning as they go, as we all are.


Source: The Guardian July 30, 2017 09:56 UTC



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