Addressing crimes against native women

Notes: "On March 8 [2014], Toronto's Church of the Redeemer hosted a teach-in on missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls in Canada. Black signs ... bore the names and ages of murdered women. Keynote speaker Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, vice-president of the Native Women's Association of Canada, outlined challenges faced by aboriginal females -- from poverty and predators to racism and systemic oppression. 'Our women experience greater rates of poverty, incarceration, child welfare apprehension, more violence' she said. 'They are more likely to go missing, more likely to be murdered and less likely to ever see justice'." The Native Women's Association of Canada has documented the cases of more than 600 missing or murdered women, and is tracking them at a rate of three to four new cases each month". Lavell-Harvard expressed anger at the federal government's refusal to call a national inquiry into murdered and missing women".

Subjects: Indigenous women - Violence against - Canada; Indigenous women - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Native women - Violence against - Canada; Native women - Crimes against - Canada; Murder victims - Canada; Native Women's Association of Canada; Lavell-Harvard, Dawn (Dawn Memee), 1974-; Anglican Church of the Redeemer (Toronto, Ont.)