MMIWG report says government is responsible for race-and-gender-based crisis – The Coast

7.6.19

MMIWG report says government is responsible for race-and-gender-based crisis – The Coast: Qfter two-and-a-half years the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its final report June 3, laying out the role that all levels of Canadian government play in the the race-and-gender-based crisis that is facing and has faced Indigenous and Inuit women. It calls for immediate transformative legal and social changes to systemic violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people.

The report presents the stories and truths behind acts of genocide against these communities. “It truly is a genocide,” says Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association president Lorraine Whitman. “This is a cultural genocide, one that is added up and accumulated over the years.”