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The White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) is a global movement of men and boys working to end male violence against women and girls. It was formed by a group of pro-feminist men in Toronto, Ontario, in November 1991 as a response to the École Polytechnique massacre of female students by Marc Lépine in 1989. The campaign was intended to raise awareness ...
The Moose Hide Campaign is a grassroots movement of I ndigenous and non-Indigenous men standing up against violence towards women and children. [1][2] The campaign was created in 2011 by Paul Lacerte and his daughter Raven Lacerte. [1][2] The campaign creates and distributes moose hide pins as a way to raise awareness about violence against women.
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 ...
Racism in Canada traces both historical and contemporary racist community attitudes, as well as governmental negligence and political non-compliance with United Nations human rights standards and incidents in Canada. [1] Contemporary Canada is the product of indigenous First Nations combined with multiple waves of immigration, predominantly ...
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 ...
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 ...
e. Compulsory sterilization in Canada is an ongoing practice that has a documented history in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. Sixty Indigenous women in Saskatchewan sued the provincial government, claiming they had been forced to accept sterilization before seeing their newborn babies. [1]
Native American and First Nations women are frequently sexually objectified and are often stereotyped as being promiscuous. [13] Such misconceptions lead to murder, rape, and violence against Native American or First Nations women and girls by mostly Native men and sometimes non-Native settlers. [14]