Vancouver-based group releases Red Women Rising report as part of submissions to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in effort address systemic impoverishment, gender violence
The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre has compiled a new report, prepared as part of submissions for Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, based on interviews with 128 individuals.Indigenous women must be included in leadership and decision-making roles to meaningfully address systemic impoverishment that they face, according to a new report from the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre.
Among the stories is that of Sophie Merasty, a Denesuline and Woodlands Cree woman originally from Manitoba. She spoke of her sister’s murder – falling out of a window to her death attempting to escape from a sexual assault in 1981 – called the police response callous, and said the man convicted in the case spent only 30 days in pretrial custody due to requirements that judges take Indigenous background into consideration in sentencing.
Suzanne Kilroy of the Okanagan First Nation spoke of her sister’s murder, of her struggles with substance use, and of police inaction when she reported being raped. No one cared much about any of that, she said, because she was a drug user, a sex worker, Indigenous and transgender. “For us, that is the overarching issue: The full implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and that every single service, and decision and policy must flow from that basic implementation and recognition of Indigenous laws and jurisdiction.”
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