Violence against Aboriginal women

From the Wawatay News:

http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2010/1/7/Violence-against-Native-women-must-end-NWAC_18880

Since 1970, the Native Women's Association of Canada has 525 documented cases of murdered or missing Aboriginal women and girls.

... 43 per cent of these reported cases have occurred since 2000.
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They are three times more likely to experience violence and five times more likely to die from violence than non-Aboriginal women.

NWAC and Ontario Native Women's Association have held the Stolen Sister's vigil to raise public awareness of the lateral violence against Aboriginal Women.

"The high levels of racialized, sexualized violence directed against Aboriginal women in Canada is a national and international shame," said Beverley Jacobs, former president of Native Women's Association of Canada.

"We urge governments in Canada to recognize these threats and take concrete action now."
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Anita Neville, official opposition critic for the Status of Women and Todd Russell, M.P. Official Opposition Critic for Aboriginal Affairs wrote a letter calling for help.

The letter was addressed to the Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson.

It read, "We are calling on you to initiate a government-funded, public investigation into how and why the number of missing and murdered women and girls from the Aboriginal community is so unacceptably high…."
James Morton
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