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This
edition of Canadian Voices features Beverley Jacobs,president of the
Native Women's Association of Canada, presenting the 2004 Amnesty
International report Stolen Sisters, on
Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada.
In
March 2004, the Native Womenâs Association of Canada and the
ecumenical social justice network KAIROS launched the Sisters in
Spirit campaign to draw attention to the high levels of violence
faced by Indigenous women in Canada, especially the largely
unacknowledged pattern of racialized sexualized
violence faced by Indigenous women in Canadian cities.
Later
that year, Amnesty International issued the report Stolen Sisters:
A Human Rights
Response
to discrimination and violence against Indigenous Women in Canada.
The report had three central
themes:
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The role of racism and discrimination in fuelling acts of extreme
brutality targeted
against
Indigenous women.
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How historic and continuing marginalization and impoverishment of
Indigenous
women
has pushed many Indigenous women into unsafe environments
 The failure of the Canadian government and society to respond
adequately to the
frequency
and seriousness of this violence, including by ensuring consistent,
thorough investigation into reports
of missing Indigenous women.
Beverley Jacobs was the lead
researcher and consultant to Amnesty Inrternational on this report,
and delivered the findings in this talk at St Thomas University in
Fredericton, New Brunswick, in October, 2004. The talk was recorded by Pierrre Loiselle of Praxis Media.
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