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SPEAK OUT ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AFFECTS EVERYONE !
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SHAMED CANADA INTO ACTION WITH THEIR REPORT ON STOLEN SISTERS.
EVERYONE HAS A VOICE AND EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO LIVE LIFE IN SAFETY AND FREE FROM VIOLENCE OR ABUSE.
It's the world's most pervasive human rights violation. It's the violation most often ignored.
Every minute of every day women and girls around the world are assaulted, threatened, raped, mutilated, killed.
According to Canadian government statistics, young Indigenous women in Canada are at
least five times more likely than all other women to die as a result of violence.
For more than a year, Amnesty International members have been writing letters and signing petitions
urging the federal and provincial governments to take action.
Canadian officials have too long ignored the threat to Indigenous women in Canadian towns
and cities. Many are missing, some have been murdered and Canadian authorities are not doing enough to stop the violence
FOR MORE INFORMATION READ THIS REPORT
Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women
in Canada.
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