Annita Lucchesi, a PhD candidate at the University of Lethbridge, wanted to include rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women in her now-completed MA thesis — but came to the conclusion that accurate numbers don’t exist. University of Lethbridge PhD candidate Annita Lucchesi decided to create a database that lists cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and the U.S. after struggling to find concrete statistics. In 2015, the Mounties updated their figure, stating that 32 more Indigenous women had been killed within RCMP jurisdictions between 2013 and 2014. In the last three years, Lucchesi has logged approximately 2,700 missing and murdered women continent-wide, more than half of whom were in Canada. Lucchesi said she has noticed that this heightened visibility has resulted in more outward racism targeting missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Source: thestar August 18, 2018 00:50 UTC