Five years after a national inquiry in Canada delivered more than 200 recommendations aimed at protecting Indigenous women and girls from going missing or being murdered, former commissioners say there’s been too little systemic change across the country.
The final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) was delivered to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, on June 3, 2019. It concluded the MMIWG crisis amounts to a genocide.
The report contained 231 calls for justice aimed at all levels of government and sectors in society, including police, health providers, the justice system and media. But a progress report issued by the Assembly of First Nations on June 3 found only two of the calls for justice impacting First Nations have been fully implemented, and most have shown minimal or no progress.
On the fifth anniversary of issuing their final report, commissioners are urging the federal government to use what remains of its mandate to accelerate work on MMIWG and bring the lasting change they called for.
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