"...a five year research initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: Community-University Research Alliance involving eight university and community partners"

Research on Human Rights Remedies to Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls

CEDAW Recommendations

CURA researchers did significant work with the UN CEDAW Committee regarding its priority recommendations to Canada on the failure to address missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls, as well as with governments and the House of Commons Committee on the Status of Women on follow-up to these recommendations.   In 2008, the CEDAW committee noted that the Canadian government had failed to live up to its obligations, and reasserted this position again in 2010, stating: “The Committee considers that its recommendation (regarding missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls) has not been implemented and it requests the Canadian authorities to urgently provide further information on measures undertaken to address such concerns.”

FAFIA, No Action: No Progress, follow up report on Canada's implementation of the 2008 CEDAW recommendations.

Letter to the Chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

CEDAW Inquiry Procedure

 

CEDAW Inquiry Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 

 

Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in British Columbia

Research also supported an intervention before the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in British Columbia.   Researchers participated in meetings with international rapporteurs on the issue of exclusion of Aboriginal women’s organizations from participation in the Commission of Inquiry and have conducted research into international avenues for addressing the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.

Forsaken,The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Executive Summary

Native Women's Association of Canada and Canadian Feminist Alliance For International Action Respond to Oppal by Calling for a National Public Inquiry and a Framework for Action to End Violence

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

FAFIA and NWAC applied and were granted two thematic briefings in March 2012 and March 2013 on murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls in Canada. As a result of these briefings, the Commission decided to send two Commissioners, Tracy Robinson and Dinah Shelton, to Canada in August 2013 for a visit to investigate and report on this human rights issue. The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) providedl thematic briefings in March 2012 and March 2013 to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rightson the disappearances and murders of Aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia, Canada.

Watch the video of the Briefing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2012).

IACHR: Request for hearing on murders and disappearances of aboriginal women and girls, Mar. 2012

FAFIA and NWAC Press Release announcing March 2012 Thematic Briefing

FAFIA and NWAC Briefing Paper for the IACHR March 2012

FAFIA & NWAC Follow‑up Report to the IACHR

NWAC FAFIA Application for Thematic Briefing March 2-22 2013

NWAC and FAFIA Thematic Briefing Paper Before IACHR, Mar. 2013

See Globe and Mail Story, "International human rights delegation to investigate treatment of First Nations"

University of Miami Human Rights Clinic, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada

REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 30/14 21 December 2014 Original: English.

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