International oversight needed into ‘consistently inadequate’ police response to MMIWG, says MP Gazan

‘This needs to be a wake-up call,’ and addressing missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls must include recognition of the rise in white supremacy and gender-based violence, says NDP MP Niki Ashton.

NDP MP Leah Gazan held a press conference in the West Block on Dec. 6 with family members of the victims of an alleged serial killer in Winnipeg. Indigenous women and girls ‘are a target, and that needs to be taken seriously,’ she says. Screenshot courtesy of CPAC

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BY STUART BENSON

December 14, 2022

The “consistently inadequate” police response to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls may require “international oversight” by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, say New Democrats, who also want to see a “clear str...

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