Canadian indigenous women victims of silent ‘genocide’: inquiry 0 SHARES Share it! It is the culmination of years of lobbying by native leaders, activists and victims’ families seeking to address disproportionate crime levels affecting indigenous women over the past three decades. According to official estimates, almost 1,200 indigenous women and girls went missing or were killed between 1980 and 2012, out of a community of 1.6 million people. But inquiry commissioners have suggested the true figure could be many times higher. “The hard truth is that we live in a country whose laws and institutions perpetuate violations of fundamental rights, amounting to a genocide against indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people,” she said — using an acronym for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 03, 2019 23:15 UTC