CEO Lynne Groulx says federal funding commitments that purport to address the inquiry’s findings and the ongoing disappearances and killings of Indigenous women in Canada have mainly been an exercise in “optics' cdnpoli
Native Women’s Association of Canada CEO Lynne Groulx is shown in an exhibit commemorating Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, at NWAC’s new head office in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, June 20, 2022.
Four years after the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its 231 calls for justice, Ottawa has still not taken meaningful action to end the ‘genocide’ of Indigenous women, the Native Women’s Association of Canada says. The organization, which represents Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people in Canada, has given the federal government a failing grade for its efforts to date on the inquiry’s sweeping calls for reform.
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