Native Women's Association Of Canada

• Funding shortfall means layoffs for half of Native Women’s Association workforce

  The organization is calling on the federal government to provide more stable core funding.

  Canada

  Mar 28, 2024
  
• ‘Enough is enough’: Native group lambastes lack of police response in Ontario woman’s death

  The Native Women's Association of Canada is calling out the lack of police response after a woman from Thunder Bay, Ont. died after police allegedly did not respond to a 911 call.

  Crime

  Jan 10, 2024
  
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• National Indigenous leaders talk reconciliation with Canadian premiers in B.C.

  Métis National Council president Cassidy Caron said the dialogue was "extremely valuable," encompassing topics such as the Indian Act and Indigenous child welfare.

  Politics

  Jul 11, 2022
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• ‘In a crisis’: Deaths of Indigenous women in Winnipeg spark calls for safe housing

  'There's been so many losses, it seems like we're in a perpetual state of grief.'

  Crime

  Jun 27, 2022
• Lack of progress on MMIWG plan ‘staggering and unacceptable,’ Ottawa told

  More accountability and oversight is needed to ensure government promises to end violence against Indigenous women are kept and progress can be measured, a new report says.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2022
• ‘We’re fighting’: B.C. woman brings MMIWG2S crisis to doorstep of the Vatican

  In Rome, B.C.'s Lorelei Williams found an attention-grabbing way to raise awareness of the crisis of violence against Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people in Canada.

  Canada

  Apr 2, 2022
• Journey to Justice: Empowering sex trafficking survivors in determining their own path forward

  For Kelly Beal, the ability to get victims immediate protection without informing their former or current trafficker is crucial.  

  Canada

  Feb 24, 2022
• Journey to Justice: How Ontario’s strategy to fight sex trafficking is changing

  While Ontario represented 29 per cent of all violent crime reported in Canada in 2019, the province accounted for over 60 per cent of Canada’s human trafficking cases.

  Canada

  Feb 23, 2022
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• Regina police organize inaugural walk in support of ‘Sisters in Spirit’ vigil

  On Oct 4, community-based organizations host annual events to honour 'Sisters in Spirit' initiatives, and support families of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples.  

  Canada

  Oct 4, 2021
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• Trudeau Tofino vacation ‘more proof’ he doesn’t care about Indigenous rights, advocate says

  The Indigenous organization found out about Trudeau's Tofino vacation on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 'with shock and dismay,' they said in a press release.

  Canada

  Oct 1, 2021