(CNN) February marked the culmination of a nearly decade-long legal saga that raised national questions about how Canada treats Indigenous women. 'Canadian genocide'For years, activists and Indigenous people in Canada have warned of a disproportionately high number of Indigenous women who have either gone missing or been killed across the country. Though they represent about 4% of all women in Canada, Indigenous women made up nearly 28% of homicides perpetrated against women in 2019, while police estimated in 2015 that some 10% of the country's missing women were Indigenous. Some activists point to other high-profile incidents involving Indigenous women that raised controversy over their treatment in Canada's legal, healthcare and prison systems. "And yet we don't see that occurring for Indigenous women."

Source: CNN March 06, 2021 13:07 UTC