This blog is now closedLandmark report on murdered Indigenous women condemned as weak’ and toothless’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWe have to have a constant reminder’The committee also called for a culturally appropriate and nationally significant recognition and remembrance of murdered and disappeared First Nations women and children.
Dorinda Cox said this would be "significant” if the government accepted the recommendation:It would … have some permanent features to remind us the role that history has played for missing and murdered or disappeared women and children and First Nations women and children in this country, because there’s a story there that needs to be told, and we have to have a constant reminder.
And if we want to continue to work on this and continue to maintain safety for women and children and the most vulnerable, which is First Nations – as we know, we’re in an emergency for all women, but First Nations women and children are at the front of that – we have to have some permanent features, otherwise we become invisible.
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