Canada: No more stolen sisters: The need for a comprehensive response to discrimination and violence against indigenous women in Canada

Canada: No more stolen sisters: The need for a comprehensive response to discrimination and violence against indigenous women in Canada

Index Number: AMR 20/012/2009
Date Published: 30 September 2009
Categories: Canada

Indigenous women in Canada experience high levels of violence. This report shows that government responses to the threats facing Indigenous women have been inadequate and piecemeal. The Canadian government has a clear and inescapable obligation to ensure the safety of Indigenous women, to bring those responsible for attacks against them to justice, and to address the deeper problems of marginalization and poverty that have placed so many Indigenous women in harm’s way.