UN inquiry for murdered & missing Aboriginal women

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The Native Women’s Association of Canada and the Feminist Alliance for International Action jointly announced that United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has decided to conduct an inquiry into Canada’s lack of action into the cases of over 580 murdered and missing women.

 

The announcement comes after both groups appealed to the Committee in January and September of this year. This inquiry procedure is used to investigate what the Committee believes to be serious violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

 

The UN committee, composed of 23 independent experts from around the world, is the organization’s main authority on women’s human rights.

 

While this statement was made on December 13, one day later the Minister for the Status of Women, Rona Ambrose, made an announcement denying that an actual inquiry had begun. She stated that she had only received a letter from the UN requesting that meetings take place this coming February.

 

Ambrose went on to say that she is looking into this issue and will respond to the letter.

 

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