Survivors raise awareness for Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW
Survivors raise awareness for Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW
Highlighting the rate with which Canada’s Indigenous girls and women face violence and abuse, 13 women shared their stories with Macleans.
The women are politicians, business owners, nurses and accountants and
all share the trauma of being Indigenous survivors of physical, sexual
and emotional abuse. Eleven of the 13 women are descendants of residential school survivors,
and more than two-thirds of the women had mothers who had also been
victims of rape. According to Macleans, the Canadian government remains
“fiercely opposed to a public inquiry” about the rate with which
Indigenous girls and women go missing and the history that puts these
women at greater risk. “So many Indigenous women were not able to get
away,” 21-year-old Sadie-Phoenix Lavole, one of the women profiled,
explained. “I want the community to see what is happening, to hear us,
to react and say: we need to protect these women. We need to fix this,”
she said.
