Too many First Nations women have been killed by people who have a history of violence in relationships.
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The ten-year National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children is proposing to align with Closing the Gap to address First Nations violence. This could work, but there are limitations.
Last week, the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children found Indigenous women are eight times more likely to be murdered. What needs to happen?
The attempt to grapple with genocide by the MMIWG commission is about more than simply applying international law to the facts. It’s also about decolonizing the international law of genocide itself.
Recent revelations of the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada are part of a long, complex and disturbing history – in which feminism became a fight to keep one’s own children.
Governments in Canada are routinely enacting public policies that primarily benefit economic elites, raising questions about government legitimacy and competency. Who’s looking out for us?
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Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
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Masters student, York University, Canada
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PhD Student, York University, Canada
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University
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Associate Professor, Indigenous Education & Research Centre, James Cook University
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Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy and Social Work, UNSW
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice, University of Saskatchewan
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Professor, McGill University