Aboriginal or Native protests at the Canadian Parliament steps in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada over murdered or missing aboriginals
Hi Rez avail - 50 MB files or Horizontal format available This issue impacts all Aboriginal women and girls — First Nations, Métis and Inuit. The number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada is disproportionately high. NWAC’s research indicates that, between 2000 and 2008, Aboriginal women and girls represented approximately 10% of all female homicides in Canada. However, Aboriginal women make up only 3% of the female population. There are no national data sources regarding missing persons in Canada. This makes it difficult to look at the issue of missing Aboriginal women and girls in comparison to other missing women. The Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police (SACP) is perhaps the only policing body to publish statistics on missing persons. It reports that almost 59% of missing women and girls in Saskatchewan are of Aboriginal ancestry. Most of the cases in the database are from the last 10 years, but there are likely older cases. The oldest case in NWAC’s database occurred in 1944, but most are much more recent; 39% of the cases in NWAC’s database occurred between 2000 and 2010, and 17% occurred in the 1990s. In contrast, only 2% of the cases in the database occurred before 1970. This gap strongly suggests that there are still many older cases to document. Most of the cases involve young women and girls. Just over half of the cases (55%) involve women and girls under the age of 31, with 17% of women and girls 18 years of age or younger. Only 8% of cases involve women over 45. Where are their children? There is an intergenerational impact to this issue. Of the cases where this information is known, the vast majority of women in NWAC’s database (88%) were mothers. NWAC estimates that more than 440 children have been impacted by the disappearance or murder of their mother. Very little is known about what happens to these children following the loss of their mother. Most of the cases occurred in the Western provinces.
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Location: Parliament Hill Ottawa Canada
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