OTTAWA — The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is calling for considerable legal reforms, including that police services establish standardized protocols to ensure all cases are thoroughly investigated. It’s also calling for standardized response times to reports of missing Indigenous persons and improved communication between officers and families from the moment they file the report. The report also concludes that colonial violence, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia against Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people has become embedded into everyday life, resulting in many Indigenous people becoming normalized to violence. “Out of respect for the independent National Inquiry and the families, we won’t comment on the details of the final report before then.”Families are finally getting the answers they have been looking for after decades of demanding a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, it added. In 2005, the Native Women’s Association of Canada created a database tracking cases, and it produced a 2010 report documenting 582 missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Source: National Post June 01, 2019 17:25 UTC