Indigenous women face alarming treatment under criminal law, a notorious instrument of colonialism

Canada must speed up Indian registration to give women and their descendants equal access to status, include Indigenous women in negotiations about self-government, and take action to eliminate violence against Indigenous women.
It is essential that Canada immediately launch an in-depth national inquiry into the racist and misogynistic culture of the RCMP, overseen by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, with a view to ridding the force of practices and policies which perpetuate its colonial mindset, writes Mary Eberts.
Canada has a colonial past. It has a colonial present. Without decisive federal action, it will have a colonial future. Reports recently released by the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), the

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