Category Archives: Indigenous Rights

Case Highlight: Class Actions for Forcibly Sterilized Indigenous Women

Actions are being brought against governments and healthcare providers in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan for sterilizing Indigenous women without their free, prior, full, and informed consent. In their class action against the Alberta government, Koskie Minsky LLP alleges “the Government of Alberta, including its senior officers, directors, bureaucrats, ministers and executives, had specific andContinue reading “Case Highlight: Class Actions for Forcibly Sterilized Indigenous Women”

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Two years after the release of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the Federal government has finally revealed its action plan to address the inquiry’s 231 calls for justice. While broad and ambiguous initiatives to combat systemic racism within the justice system are identified, there isContinue reading “National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls”

National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

On October 4, 2021, the government of Ontario recognized the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. In their statement, they released various initiatives centered around addressing the root causes of violence. Since the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released in 2019, the federal governmentContinue reading “National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls”

Canada is Failing Indigenous Women

Paula Ethans JD Candidate, 2018 The scale and severity of the persecution faced by Indigenous women in Canada is a human rights crisis. The impact of residential schools, the “Sixties Scoop,” and the Indian Act, as well as discriminatory child welfare policies continue to subject Indigenous women to cultural dislocation, and family breakdown.[1] But particularly troublingContinue reading “Canada is Failing Indigenous Women”