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11.12.14

Take action to protect Individuals at Risk || Amnesty International Canada: Indigenous women are going missing and being murdered at a much higher rate than other women in Canada—a rate so high it constitutes nothing less than a national human rights crisis.

According to RCMP data, at least 1,017 Indigenous women and girls were murdered from 1980-2012.

Amnesty International is calling for a comprehensive, coordinated, and well-resourced National Action Plan, created in collaboration with Indigenous women and girls, to stop the violence.�


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