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Within days of becoming the first aboriginal woman to win this international pageant, the 25-year-old is calling out the Conservative party, which faces elections next month, for ignoring First Nations issues, including missing and murdered aboriginal women.
The first CEDAW investigation in a developed country is a “big black eye for Canada,” says one activist. The findings may not produce government action, but can stir activism, says Sally Armstrong in this excerpt from the book “Uprising.”
As Canada prepares for a year of consideration of the late-December ruling by the Supreme Court to decriminalize prostitution, advocates on both sides are gearing up for this hot-button issue.
Fifteen organizations last week intensified their opposition to a government inquiry into missing women in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. In an open letter, detractors said they would instead cooperate with a U.N. probe launched in December.
Groups representing Aboriginal women hope the government will have a partial victory in upholding current prostitution laws. They say female sex workers need to be decriminalized, but they will be endangered if the government stops arresting pimps and johns.