CRM 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neil Stonechild, Duncan Campbell Scott, Human Rights Watch
20 Nov 2013
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Over 600 missing or murdered aboriginal women in canada [amnesty canada estimates human rights crisis, called for national inquiry but prime minister has said it"s not worth it] Missing sex workers in vancouver"s downtown eastside. Slow police response [no coordination, not very good leadership, poorly organized repsonse] Missing women along bc"s highway of tears [since the late 1960"s, a lot of aboriginal or marginalized women have gone missing while they have been hitchhiking, which is a fairly normal practice in northern bc] Slow police response , until the disappearance of a white woman [then there was a huge coordinated response, her story was making headlines, huge search parties, etc. none of which was done for the 8-10 aboriginals before her] Database was keeping track of aboriginal women and girls who have gone missing, but since 2010, the government funding has stopped, but the organization has basically taken up the police work in organization and collection of data.
