A Year Later - We Remember, We Fight for justice
A year ago today the national inquiry report into missing and murdered First Nations, Inuit, and Métis women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people was released.
From the National Inquiry’s website:
"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."
Yet, almost all the media coverage was about the report's use of the word 'genocide' to describe the continuous pattern of murder of Indigenous women instead of focusing on the genocide itself. The National Inquiry created a supplementary report of a legal analysis of genocide.
A year later and the government has not yet created the promised action plan to end the violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. “Using COVID-19 as an excuse for delaying a national action plan — to me — is really like saying, well, the dog ate my homework,” former Chief Commissioner of the National Inquiry, Marion Buller,
Read the final report here.
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