The Iskweu Project, an initiative of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, has put in place a tip line to immediately answer calls and provide assistance to families and loved ones in cases when Indigenous women, girls or trans people go missing.
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Kicking off McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative’s (MSSI) first annual Sustainable Development Goals Week, McGill’s International Development Studies Student Association (IDSSA), McGill Sustainable Development Goals Student Hub (SDG), and McGill Students for Amnesty International hosted a panel titled “Basic Needs of Indigenous Communities on Turtle Island” on Feb. 13. Panelists Jessica Quijano, a feminist activist working for the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal and Tom Deerhouse, an elder facilitator at the First Peoples Justice Centre in Montreal, discussed housing shortages, COVID-19’s impact on pre-existing inequities, and the realities of advocacy work.
The panel framed the conversation around the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals a list of 17 goals adopted in 2015. Speakers specifically highlighted four goals that are far from being met in certain Indigenous communities in Canada: Eliminating poverty and hunger, ensuring good health and wel
MONTREAL The lives of Indigenous women, girls, transgendered and two-spirit people who have gone missing or were killed were honoured in an online vigil on Sunday evening. Organizers said that despite a national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Quebec s Viens Commission, Indigenous people still face discrimination. Organizer Jessica Quijano said the issue is compounded by a lack of will from political leaders and a media that focuses too much on the problems facing Indigenous people. Still, she said the event s purpose is to focus on healing. “Society, once they know more about the situation, they want to resolve it. I don t think anyone wants to hear about sisters and daughters being murdered. I think it s important for the families. There s a lot of cases that are not resolved. I work with families and when there s no justice, it s very difficult to heal.”
“Tell us where you are at. Give us some information,” Michele Audette said. Kelly Geraldine Malone, Canadian Press
02/13/2021 06:37pm EST
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Commissioner Michele Audette speaks during ceremonies marking the release of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women report in Gatineau, Que. on June 3, 2019.
MONTREAL A commissioner who served on the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls implored the federal government for more transparency on its response to the final report’s calls for change.
Michele Audette’s remarks came on Saturday during what she and other advocates described as a time when Indigenous women are facing heightened risks of violence in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.