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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), also known as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and more broadly as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) or Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), are instances of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States, [1] [2] notably those in the First nations in Canada and Native American ...
1 August 1981. Disappeared. 14 December 2003 (aged 22) Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Status. Missing for 20 years, 6 months and 23 days. Pamela Jayne Holopainen (born 1 August 1981) was a young Inuk woman who disappeared in Timmins, Ontario, in 2003. As of 2022, her whereabouts and the circumstances of her disappearance remain unknown.
The Women's Memorial March is an annual event which occurs on February 14 in honour of the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) across Canada and the United States. [1] This event is also a protest against class disparity, racism, inequality and violence. The event originated in 1992 in Vancouver's Downtown East Side ...
Murder of Helen Betty Osborne. Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty Osborne (July 16, 1952 – November 13, 1971), was a Cree Indigenous woman from Norway House reserve who was kidnapped and murdered while walking down Third Street in The Pas, Manitoba.
Sisters in Spirit. The Sisters in Spirit initiative was a program led by the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) and funded by Status of Women Canada. Beginning in 2005, the initiative was an effort to research and document the statistics of violence against Indigenous women in Canada. It also sought to heighten awareness and education ...
The Highway of Tears is a 719-kilometre (447 mi) corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, which has been the location of crimes against many women, beginning in 1970 when the highway was completed. The phrase was coined during a vigil held in Terrace, British Columbia in 1998, by Florence ...
2022 Winnipeg serial killings. Between March and May 2022, four Indigenous-Canadian women, Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and an unidentified woman referred to as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe (or Buffalo Woman), were murdered by Jeremy Skibicki. He was charged for the murders on December 1, 2022. [1]
Total: $53.8 m CAD. Funding: Government of Canada. Duration. September 1, 2016 – June 3, 2019. Website. www.mmiwg-ffada.ca. The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was a Canadian public inquiry from 2016 to 2019 that studied the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. [ 1] The study included reviews of ...