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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
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Global atrocities against indiginous
women and girls
Al Jazeera
5 May 2022
By Al Jazeera Team
<<US, Canada commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Indigenous women and girls face disproportionate rates of violence in
both countries and advocates say action is needed.
Indigenous rights advocates in Canada and the United States have renewed
longstanding calls for concrete action to stem dispropor-tionate rates
of violence against Indigenous women and girls in both countries.
Thursday marks Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day in
the US, while it is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and
Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), otherwise known as Red
Dress Day, in Canada. <The Federal Government has an obligation to
ensure that cases of missing or murdered persons are met with swift and
effective action,> US President Joe Biden said in a proclamation
recognising the day.
<My Administration is fully committed to investigating and resolving
these cases through a coordinated law enforcement response, as well as
intervention and prevention efforts. We are also dedicated to
researching the underlying causes of this violence and to working with
Native communities to address them,> Biden said.
Indigenous communities have sounded the alarm for years over the
disproportionately high number of women, girls and two-spirit people who
have been killed or disappeared in the US and Canada. Two-spirit is a
term used by some Indigenous people to describe their gender and
spiritual identity. Advocates also have denounced systemic inaction on
the part of government and law enforcement agencies to address the
issue. In 2014, the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
reported that nearly 1,200 Indigenous women had been murdered or gone
missing in Canada between 1980 and 2012 – but advocates say the real
number was likely much higher.
A National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in
2019 concluded that the violence <amounts to a race-based genocide of
Indigenous Peoples> that especially targets women, girls and members of
the LGBTQ2S+ community. <This genocide has been empowered by colonial
structures … leading directly to the current increased rates of
violence, death, and suicide in Indigenous populations,> it said. But
Indigenous community advocates say too little has been done to address
the problem. <Almost three years after the National Inquiry into #MMIWG
released their Final Report, we are still waiting on the concrete
actions that must be taken outlined in the Calls for Justice,> Lynne
Groulx, CEO of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), said on
Twitter on Thursday. In the US, the National Crime Information Center in
2016 documented 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska
Native women and girls, according to a report by the Urban Indian Health
Institute (link to a PDF). <The Center[s] for Disease Control and
Prevention has reported that murder is the third-leading cause of death
among American Indian and Alaska Native women and that rates of violence
on reservations can be up to ten times higher than the national
average,> the report also said.>>
Read more here:
INDI-may22-4.htm
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