New UN report another ‘tool’ for advocates in fight for justice for Indigenous women

‘I am literally imploring the government to have those conversations with us, and to bring us forward,' says NWAC’s Josie Nepinak, as C-38 remains stagnant.

Indigenous women at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' closing ceremony at the Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., in June 2019. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

November 25, 2024

A recent United Nations committee report is urging more and faster action from Canada to eliminate discrimination against Indigenous women. And while many of its calls speak to changes advocates have been pushing for years—and even decades—to see realized, it will noneth...

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