Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2 Spirit People | Oct. 3, 2024 | 1:30 - 3PM
Awo
Taan Healing Lodge has organized the Sisters’ in Spirit Vigil for 21
years to advocate for justice and raise awareness on Missing and
Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2 Spirit People and gave testimony
in the National Inquiry to MMIWG2S+.
The
National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate
human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause
behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women,
girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two-volume report calls for
transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has
devastated Indigenous communities across the country.
The
Final Report is comprised of the truths of more than 2,380 family
members, survivors of violence, experts and Knowledge Keepers shared
over two years of cross-country public hearings and evidence gathering.
It delivers 231 individual Calls for Justice directed at governments,
institutions, social service providers, industries and all Canadians.
As
documented in the Final Report, testimony from family members and
survivors of violence spoke about a surrounding context marked by
multigenerational and intergenerational trauma and marginalization in
the form of poverty, insecure housing or homelessness and barriers to
education, employment, health care and cultural support. Experts and
Knowledge Keepers spoke to specific colonial and patriarchal policies
that displaced women from their traditional roles in communities and
governance and diminished their status in society, leaving them
vulnerable to violence.
This
session will be led by Awo Taan Healing Lodge along with surviving
family members and advocates for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women,
Girls and Two-Spirited Peoples.
An
independent, national, toll-free murdered and missing Indigenous women
and girls support call line is available to support anyone who requires
assistance. This line is available free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. 1.844.413.6649
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