Native women’s group calls on feds to support Organization of American States’ probe on MMIWG inquiry’s finding of genocide

Having an external, internationally recognized body would help hold the government accountable, in the face of concerns about bureaucratic wrangling, said Lynne Groulx of the Native Women's Association.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured at the closing ceremony of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on June 3, 2019, says he accepts the commission's finding of genocide. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

July 9, 2019

An Indigenous women’s organization is adding its voice to growing calls to probe deeper into the national inquiry’s finding that the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls were tied to discriminatory policies that amounted to genocide. ...

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