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2013

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  Unity and Commitment to Improving Safety for All Indigenous Citizens and Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls

  (April 11, 2013 - Ottawa, ON) - The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) closed the National Forum on Community Safety and Ending Violence in Edmonton, Alberta yesterday with a renewed and strengthened commitment to actions to increase community safety and further press for a National Public Commission...

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  NWAC Digital Life Stories 

  April 9, 2013 (Edmonton, AB) - The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is pleased to announce the release of a new video entitled, “NWAC Digital Life Stories.” As part of NWAC’s commitment to the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls, three new Life Stories were created in collaboration with Aboriginal families. With the increased use of social media and technology, NWAC chose to use...
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  Violence Prevention and Safety department assumes additional activities 

  April 9, 2013 (Ottawa, ON) - The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is pleased to announce that the Violence Prevention and Safety department is undertaking additional activities aimed at ensuring that Aboriginal women and girls can live free from violence in Canada.

   

  “We continue our groundbreaking work on the critical issue of missing and...
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  Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Requests Visit to Canada to Investigate Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women and Girls

  Ottawa, ON (March 15, 2013). For the second consecutive year, the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) provided a briefing on murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which is...
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  NWAC APPLAUDS THE FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL'S DECISON FOR THE CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNALTO HEAR EVIDENCE OF INEQUALITIES FACING FIRST NATIONS CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 

  Ottawa, ON (March 14, 2013) – The recent ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal has affirmed that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will get to hear about the existing inequalities faced by First Nations children and their families in Canada, despite the Federal Government's...
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  NWAC’s Official WEBSITE IS AT www.nwac.ca

  March 11, 2013 (Ottawa, ON) - The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) was recently made aware that a website with a URL address of www.sistersinspirit.ca has been operating for the purpose of imitating work carried out during 2005-2010 by NWAC through the Sisters In Spirit (SIS) initiative. We wish to advise the public that this site is not affiliated...
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  National Coalition of Equality Seeking Women’s Groups WANTS MORE FOR WOMEN

  (OTTAWA) March 8, 2013 – On International Women’s Day and every day, women across Canada and around the world should be free from slavery, violence, inequality, and exploitation. The Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution [“the Coalition”], a pan-Canadian coalition of equality-seeking women’s groups speaks out against women...
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  Growing Disparities and Representations of Aboriginal Inmates in Canada Continues

  OTTAWA, March 7, 2013 – The Correctional Investigator (federal ombudsman for prisons) Mr. Howard Sapers tabled in Parliament a scathing report reviewing the experiences of Aboriginal Peoples in correctional facilities. The Report Spirit Matters: Aboriginal People and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, primarily looked at the implementation of...
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  NWAC Observes International Women's Day

  March 8th, 2013 (Ottawa, ON) – The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) once more acknowledges and celebrates International Women’s Day.  NWAC would like to congratulate all those who have helped to improve the lives of Aboriginal women. NWAC is proud to work alongside women who advance human rights through education, strive for social justice and equality, and work to end violence against women...